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Build Your First Real Microservices Project in Go

Create a complete microservices app from scratch — perfect as your first portfolio piece. Learn by doing, even if you're new to Go.

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Your Portfolio Needs a Real Project

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Recruiters scroll past another todo app or calculator

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You can't point to a single project that shows real engineering skill

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Open source contributions feel intimidating without project experience

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You've followed tutorials but never built something from an empty folder

Why a Go Microservices Project Stands Out

A microservices project signals to employers that you understand how modern software is built — not just individual features.

Multi-service architecture

Show you understand how services communicate, scale, and fail independently. That's senior-level thinking.

Real tech stack

Docker, gRPC, PostgreSQL, NATS messaging — the tools you'll actually use at a real company.

End-to-end ownership

From data models to API design to deployment. One project that covers the full backend spectrum.

Conversation starter in interviews

Walk interviewers through your architecture decisions, trade-offs, and the problems you solved.

Overwhelmed by all the confusing theory?

You’ve read all the blog posts and tried the theory-heavy books... but you still don’t know where to start.

This course skips the jargon and helps you build something real.

Traditional Content 👎🏻

• Heavy on theory, light on implementation
• DDD, CQRS, Service Mesh... before you even write a handler
• Abstract patterns with no working code
• Weeks before you can build anything.
• More confusing than helpful.

Practical Video Course👍🏻

• Learn by building
• Step-by-step video course
• Real-world microservice system
• 100% practical

Walk away with real skills

Write Go like it's meant for production.
Learn clean structure, useful logs, proper transport, and the kind of organization real teams use.

JWT Auth

Secure endpoints with tokens

Implement login, token generation, and auth middleware.

HTTP + gRPC

Public APIs & inter-service comms

Expose REST to clients and gRPC between internal services.

Event Driven Architecture

Use Nats.IO for async communication

Use publish/subscribe to decouple services cleanly.

DDD-Style Code

Feature-first project structure

Write services that scale and are easy to reason about.

Structured Logging

Understand what’s going on

Use Logrus to log with structure and context.

Dockerized Setup

One command to spin it all up

Run all services with Docker Compose, just like in prod.

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I had a technical interview yesterday. They asked about my microservices experience, so I basically walked them through the exact project from the course. Felt amazing.

Andrew

Build a full Microservice Architecture.
From Scratch

Full project in just 6 steps.

Step 1

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Service Boilerplate

Learn how to build a service boilerplate. A base that we'll use as a starting point for all our services.

Step 2

🔒

Auth & User Management

Our first service. A service that will handle all our authentication and user management.

Step 3

🎉

Event Service

Learn how to build an event service that can be used to build any event-based microservice.

Step 4

💸

Payment Service

A gRPC first payment processing service. A simple mock of a payment gateway.

Step 5

📝

Booking Service

Let users book event tickers. Covers service interconnections and async communication.

Step 6

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Your First Real System

All the services are done. Let's deploy them with Docker Compose and see the final product.

All that in under 20 hours

Explore the chapters and what you'll build along the way.

1. Introduction

1.1 Introduction2:19 min
1.2 Tech Stack Overview1:34 min
1.3 Installing Docker1:47 min
1.4 Installing Go1:30 min
1.5 Installing Protobuf2:27 min

3. Building Users Service

3.1 User Service Overview5:00 min
3.2 Create User Service & OpenAPI Spec7:02 min
3.3 DB User Model7:48 min
3.4 User Repository12:17 min
3.5 Auth Module Setup4:16 min
3.6 Register User34:28 min
3.7 User Login14:27 min
3.8 Get User Profile12:51 min
3.9 Update User Profile15:38 min

5. Building the Payment Service

5.1 Payment Service Overview6:39 min
5.2 DB Models & Repo14:59 min
5.3 Setup GRPC Server9:31 min
5.4 Create Payment Use Case17:16 min
5.5 Get Payment Use Case7:30 min
5.6 Refund Payment Use Case10:26 min
5.7 Check the GRPC Endpoints5:56 min

7. Event Service Updated

7.1 Booking Events & Events Hanlder Added17:03 min

2. Creating the boilerplate

2.1 Project Structure1:14 min
2.2 Boilerplate Setup9:46 min
2.3 Setting up Docker Compose4:03 min
2.4 Config11:29 min
2.5 Dependencies16:16 min
2.6 HTTP Service11:08 min
2.7 Health Module7:41 min
2.8 Creating JWT Utils10:54 min
2.9 Creating Error Utils4:22 min
2.10 How To Import Utils2:29 min
2.11 Create Service Script10:38 min

4. Building the Event Service

4.1 Event Service Overview1:30 mn
4.2 Create Event Service & OpenAPI Spec9:41 min
4.3 Create DB Models & Repository15:06 min
4.4 Create Event Use Case41:26 min
4.5 Get Event & Events Use Cases25:14 min
4.6 Update Event Use Case28:15 min
4.7 Delete Event Use Case12:59 min
4.8 GRPC Contract Definition7:27 min
4.9 GRPC Server Setup10:17 min
4.10 Check Event Availability Use Case9:53 min
4.11 Get Event & Events GRPC Handlers11:27 min
4.12 Create GRPC Checker Util4:10 min

6. Building the Booking Service

6.1 Booking Service Overview1:29 mn
6.2 Booking Payment Service & OpenAPI Spec11:34 min
6.3 Create DB Models & Repository21:01 min
6.4 Book Event Use Case Part 156:23 min
6.5 Book Event Use Case Part 23:56 min
6.6 Get Booking & Bookings Use Cases22:37 min
6.7 Purchase Booking Use Case29:26 min
6.8 Cancel Booking Use Case19:33 min
6.9 Create Event Listener Util9:05 min
6.10 Handle Payment Service Events18:59 min
6.11 Handle Event Created Event12:33 min
6.12 Handle Event Deleted Event17:50 min
6.13 Handle Event Updated Event16:16 min

8. Deployment and ScalingBonus

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1. Introduction

1.1 Introduction2:19 min
1.2 Tech Stack Overview1:34 min
1.3 Installing Docker1:47 min
1.4 Installing Go1:30 min
1.5 Installing Protobuf2:27 min

2. Creating the boilerplate

2.1 Project Structure1:14 min
2.2 Boilerplate Setup9:46 min
2.3 Setting up Docker Compose4:03 min
2.4 Config11:29 min
2.5 Dependencies16:16 min
2.6 HTTP Service11:08 min
2.7 Health Module7:41 min
2.8 Creating JWT Utils10:54 min
2.9 Creating Error Utils4:22 min
2.10 How To Import Utils2:29 min
2.11 Create Service Script10:38 min

3. Building Users Service

3.1 User Service Overview5:00 min
3.2 Create User Service & OpenAPI Spec7:02 min
3.3 DB User Model7:48 min
3.4 User Repository12:17 min
3.5 Auth Module Setup4:16 min
3.6 Register User34:28 min
3.7 User Login14:27 min
3.8 Get User Profile12:51 min
3.9 Update User Profile15:38 min

4. Building the Event Service

4.1 Event Service Overview1:30 mn
4.2 Create Event Service & OpenAPI Spec9:41 min
4.3 Create DB Models & Repository15:06 min
4.4 Create Event Use Case41:26 min
4.5 Get Event & Events Use Cases25:14 min
4.6 Update Event Use Case28:15 min
4.7 Delete Event Use Case12:59 min
4.8 GRPC Contract Definition7:27 min
4.9 GRPC Server Setup10:17 min
4.10 Check Event Availability Use Case9:53 min
4.11 Get Event & Events GRPC Handlers11:27 min
4.12 Create GRPC Checker Util4:10 min

5. Building the Payment Service

5.1 Payment Service Overview6:39 min
5.2 DB Models & Repo14:59 min
5.3 Setup GRPC Server9:31 min
5.4 Create Payment Use Case17:16 min
5.5 Get Payment Use Case7:30 min
5.6 Refund Payment Use Case10:26 min
5.7 Check the GRPC Endpoints5:56 min

6. Building the Booking Service

6.1 Booking Service Overview1:29 mn
6.2 Booking Payment Service & OpenAPI Spec11:34 min
6.3 Create DB Models & Repository21:01 min
6.4 Book Event Use Case Part 156:23 min
6.5 Book Event Use Case Part 23:56 min
6.6 Get Booking & Bookings Use Cases22:37 min
6.7 Purchase Booking Use Case29:26 min
6.8 Cancel Booking Use Case19:33 min
6.9 Create Event Listener Util9:05 min
6.10 Handle Payment Service Events18:59 min
6.11 Handle Event Created Event12:33 min
6.12 Handle Event Deleted Event17:50 min
6.13 Handle Event Updated Event16:16 min

7. Event Service Updated

7.1 Booking Events & Events Hanlder Added17:03 min

8. Deployment and ScalingBonus

Coming Soon

The codebase feels like something you'd actually see in at real companies. I was suprised, other courses never show that!

Tony

A Portfolio Piece That Opens Doors

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A multi-service Go application you built from scratch

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Clean code structure using domain-driven design principles

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Experience with Docker, gRPC, REST, and async messaging

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A GitHub repo you can proudly share with any employer

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Is this for you?

👉You need a portfolio project that's more impressive than tutorials
👉You want to build something from scratch, not clone a repo
👉You want a project that demonstrates real engineering skills
👉You want something tangible to show in interviews

This course may not be for you if:

❌You already have production projects on your resume
❌You want a quick weekend project, not a thorough build
❌You're not interested in backend or systems development

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The Course + 1-on-1 call with Damian was 🔥. He gave me feedback on my project, helped me prep for interviews, and explained stuff I was stuck on.
100 recommended

Guillem

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Having an microservice project in your resume is a game changer. It made me stand out from the crowd.

Ivan

Meet the author

You're not learning from a random YouTuber or theory-heavy professor. You're learning from someone who's built real software, led teams, and deployed Go microservices to production.

Hey it's Damian 👋

I'm a former tech lead and self-taught engineer with 10+ years of experience.

I’ve worked at fintech companies like Sygnum Bank, BBVA, and led product teams at startups.

After launching and scaling real backend services in production, I created this course to teach you how to create microservices based apps in a simple way.

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Build Your First Real Microservices Project in Go

Your Portfolio Needs a Real Project

Why a Go Microservices Project Stands Out

Multi-service architecture

Real tech stack

End-to-end ownership

Conversation starter in interviews

Overwhelmed by all the confusing theory?

Traditional Content 👎🏻

Practical Video Course👍🏻

Walk away with real skills

JWT Auth

HTTP + gRPC

Event Driven Architecture

DDD-Style Code

Structured Logging

Dockerized Setup

Build a full Microservice Architecture. From Scratch

Service Boilerplate

Auth & User Management

Event Service

Payment Service

Booking Service

Your First Real System

All that in under 20 hours

1. Introduction

3. Building Users Service

5. Building the Payment Service

7. Event Service Updated

2. Creating the boilerplate

4. Building the Event Service

6. Building the Booking Service

8. Deployment and ScalingBonus

1. Introduction

2. Creating the boilerplate

3. Building Users Service

4. Building the Event Service

5. Building the Payment Service

6. Building the Booking Service

7. Event Service Updated

8. Deployment and ScalingBonus

A Portfolio Piece That Opens Doors

Is this for you?

This course may not be for you if:

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