Real World Goa

Essential aspects of building reliable, maintainable, and secure APIs with Goa in production environments

Building production-ready APIs requires more than just defining endpoints and handling requests. This section covers essential aspects of building reliable, maintainable, and secure APIs with Goa.

Overview

The chapters in this section walk you through the key aspects of production API development with Goa:

  • Error handling strategies that maintain clean separation between domain and transport concerns
  • Comprehensive observability setup to understand your API’s behavior in production
  • Common implementation patterns that solve real-world API requirements
  • Security implementations from basic authentication to OAuth2, along with best practices

Getting Started

If you’re new to building production APIs with Goa, we recommend following these chapters in order as each builds on concepts from previous chapters. However, if you’re looking to implement specific functionality, each section is also designed to stand alone.

Remember that security should be considered at every step, not just in the security chapters. The security best practices chapter provides guidelines that apply across all aspects of your API implementation.

Next Steps

Ready to start building production-grade APIs? Begin with Error Handling to learn how to handle problems gracefully in your API.

In This Section

Common Patterns

This section explores battle-tested patterns and best practices for building robust, maintainable Goa services, covering challenges from service-to-service communication to authentication flows with practical examples and trade-off explanations.

Error Handling in Goa

Learn how to effectively handle errors in Goa services, including error definition, transport mapping, and best practices.

Observability

Understanding and implementing observability in Goa services

Security

Learn how to secure your HTTP Goa APIs using various authentication methods