Building a Simple RESTful APIs Backend in Go using Gin Gorm and PostgreSQL

Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques
8 min readDec 29, 2023

This article serves as a hands-on introduction to the powerful Gin web framework in Golang. You will learn to build a sleek RESTful APIs backend with a practical example.

Build RESTful APIs using Go and Gin

This article is the first of a series of articles where we will dive deep into building a full-fledged, scalable Go backend! This series will guide you through crafting robust REST APIs with Gin, containerizing with Docker, monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus, scaling with Kubernetes, carrying load testing with Hey and k6s, documenting with Postman, and deploying to AWS (think Beanstalk or ECS).

In this article, we will start by introducing Gin and building simple RESTful APIs. We will build a simple RESTful API to manage startups. It sounds more fun than the classic TODO list API, right?

Leeroy Jenkins! Let’s get started 🚀

Prerequisites

Before we start, let’s make sure you have the basics covered:

  • Golang installed on your machine
  • A Vercel account
  • Postman installed

Introducing the Go and Gin Duo

Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much…

--

--

Baimam Boukar Jean Jacques

AWS Community Builder | Open Source Enthusiast | Mobile Engineer | Write about Flutter- Go - Bitcoin - AWS severless and Cloud native apps