Software developers who are fairly new to Go and are looking to employ a high-performance web application or backend API will be most rewarded by this book.  Developers who have a performance requirement for their APIs and developers who have some Go experience, as well as experience with web application frameworks in general but not with Echo, will also benefit.

We assume that the reader will be well-versed in web technologies, with a basic understanding of the HTTP protocol and REST API design concepts. We further assume that the reader will have worked with another backend web application framework before and understands the processing pipelines that are common in web frameworks.