The document discusses microservices and the use of Golang for building microservices. Some key points: - Microservices are small, independent services that work together, organized around business capabilities. Golang is well-suited for building microservices due to its static compilation, concurrency features, and standard library support for web development. - The document discusses why the authors chose Golang for microservices, highlighting Golang's static compilation, lack of external dependencies, easy concurrency with goroutines, and standard library support for networking, JSON, protocols, and more. - It provides examples of building simple microservices in Golang, including a hello world service and a basic HTTP server, and discusses how middleware