Stock market core

What is this?

This is an attempt to create a high performance API (core) for an imaginary stock market with as many users as possible.

Why?

1. I wanted to create something to learn more about Go and challenge my knowledge.
2. I wanted to add a well-documented and well-tested project to my resume, and I hope that this would be it!.
3. Iran's Stock market has suffered so many outages and is still performing poorly, so I wonder if I can create something better.

Stack

• Go Programming Language is the language of choice for this project
• PostgreSQL is used as the RDBMS

Getting started

1. Follow this guide to install Go.
2. install sql-migrate: $ go get -v github.com/rubenv/sql-migrate/...
3. set required environment variables for the database connection. These variables are: POSTGRES_PORT, POSTGRES_USER,POSTGRES_PASSWORD,DATABASE_NAME
4. make sure you have docker installed and run: $ make db. this will create the postgres database.
5. $ make this will apply the migrations and try to start the server on port PORT if it is set, otherwise on port 8080

• use $ make destroy to delete the database
• use $ make clean to rollback all the migrations

Resources

Nic Jackson's amazing tutorial about microservices

Florin Patan's talk about microservices at GopherCon UK 2018