Topic

go

This topic contains articles about Go programming tips, tools, and best practices.

How To Work With Private Go Repositories

Go works seamlessly when the code that you are working with resides in public repositories. However, suppose you maintain your projects in private repositories. In that case, you need to tweak your environment a little to be able to work with your private Go modules.

Let’s Create a Syslog Logger

In this article, we’ll create a logging wrapper module that will log messages to Syslog: a standard network-based logging protocol that works on a wide variety of different types of devices and applications.

Make Your Code Leaner By Extracting Methods

In this article, we’ll see an example of method extraction. We’ll make our code less repetitive, cleaner, and easier to follow.

Here’s a Technique to Ensure Environment Variables Are Set Before Starting a Microservice

How do you make sure that your microservice does not start if any of the environment variables it depends on is missing? And how do you do this with the least amount of maintenance overhead. In this article, we’ll cover it.

Installing Go on Mac OS (Video)

In this quick video, we’ll be setting up our Go development environment for Mac OS.

Places to Learn Go

This article covers tools and resources that can help you ramp up with Go programming and make you learn enough Go to be dangerous, at least.

Installing Go on Windows

Instructions to set up Go on Windows.

Installing Go on Linux

Instructions to set up Go on Linux

Installing Go on a Mac

Instructions to set up Go on Mac OS.

Setting Up Your Go Development Environment

In this mini-article, we’ll see how we can set up our Go development environment. Installing and configuring Go on your system is pretty streamlined.