tag: golang

As a developer who works with Go in my day-to-day development, I constantly struggle with third party packages or tools which bring in a lot of dependencies. This is especially true when you’re trying to keep your project dependencies up to date, while dependabot, and other security software, is screaming about vulnerabilities in dependencies of dependencies. This is especially a problem with two common packages I use: Any HTTP adaptor package, which ships with integrations for multiple server packages, such as Gin, Echo, and others....

I was inspired by others to document the tools I use working as a software developer professionally, and hacking on side projects out side of work. One thing to note is in my day job I work on an Apple Mac, but my personal machine is a Linux laptop running PopOS. I find using Linux as a desktop works as most software I use is web based or supported on linux....

Assuming you read my Starting a Go Project post you should have the starting point for a minimal go web service. For your first project it is easier to keep all your code in one folder, in the base of your project, but at some point you will want to restructure things, this is done for a few of reasons: Having everything in one folder results in a lot of inter dependencies in the code....

Given the changes with Go Modules I wanted to document a brief getting started for Go projects, this will focus on building a minimal web service. Before you start you will need to install Go, I recommend using homebrew or for ubuntu users Golang Backports, or as last resort grab it from the Go Downloads page. So this looks like this for OSX. brew install go Or for ubuntu we add the PPA, then install golang 1....

Lately I have been using apex to build a side project, this tool stream lines building and deploying serverless applications using AWS Lambda. While working on this project I have helped others get started with golang at the same time as apex. My general strategy for building apex applications is to build a standalone version of the functionality on my machine, typically in a way which makes the code reusable, then I import and use that in apex....

I have been helping a few people get up and running with golang lately and thought it was about time to post a brief getting started. This is primarily for OSX as this is what most of my colleagues use. Firstly you will need to install golang and setup your GOPATH. If your on OSX you can just install homebrew and use it to install golang. brew install go Then in OSX I append a couple of lines to my $HOME/....