This article shows how to develop a service for generating globally unique IDs on a Kubernetes cluster. IDs will be generated similarly as with Twitter's Snowflake service, making them suitable for distributed systems where auto-incremental IDs fail and 128 bits for UUIDs is too inefficient. These IDs can also be "roughly" sorted by creation time, simply by sorting them lexicographically.

Generating Unique 64 bit IDs with Go on Kubernetes

Building and compiling apps inside a Docker image can produce very large images. To reduce the size, build pipeline can be split into multiple stages, where the final image only contains built binaries. This article shows how to set up a Docker image with services developed in Go, maintain multiple services inside a single image and how to use the image with Kubernetes.

Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Kubernetes

This article aims to provide a simple introduction to building microservices in Go, using gRPC, and deploying them to a Kubernetes cluster. It shows how to set up two containerized, scalable services, talking to each other using request/response mechanism.

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Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Kubernetes

Getting Started with Microservices using Go, gRPC and Kubernetes