Since Golang is considering a lightweight programming language and Firebase is the next-generation Backend-as-a-Service, we think it could be a savvy combination to develop with ease both performant and secure microservices or stand-alone projects. Here are several advantages that could convince you to try this combo. When it comes to Golang, it is as speedy …
Why Golang became the way for many companies? Let’s start answering to this question through an imagination exercise. Did you ever confront with that kind of frustration of dealing with complexity generated by very large teams of people working on very large pieces of software written languages with large feature sets? Well, as you might …
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In the last days I’ve played a little bit with negroni middleware and httprouter router. I found that the documentation about how can we use negroni middlewares for specific routes with httprouter is pretty poor. So I decided to write this article to share with you what I’ve found. Negroni is an idiomatic approach to …
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So, in a previous post I explained how one can backup all databases on a server, each in its own dump file. Let’s take it to the next level and make a Golang program that will let us run the dump process with a HTTP request. Assuming you already have Go installed on the backup …
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Since its introduction, Google’s Go Programming Language (Golang) has been experiencing an increasing popularity among mainstream users. In a December 2016 survey, 89% of the 3,595 respondents claimed that they program in Go at work or outside of work. Additionally, Go ranks highest among the programming languages in terms of expertise and preference. This July …
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I’ve been watching the 2017 Gophercon videos from here. There are many good talks that I would recommend watching from that list. One that I really wanted to try out on my own was the profiling presentation that Peter Bourgon did. I assume for the sake of simplicity, he left some details out. I’ve been trying …
Before I started to learn Go, every online opinion I would read about the language complained about the lack of generics and how OOP was dumbed down and so on. It made me put off learning it for quite some time, more than I would like to admit. Coming from a C++ background, OOP, generics …
