Jul 13, 2021Logging in go-api-basicThoughts on Logging I’ve gone through a few logging phases in my career. I logged everything. It was great, until the logs became meaningless because there were too many. I logged only errors, but in some cases that was not enough. Now I’m somewhere in the middle. I do believe in logging all…Go6 min readGo6 min read
Jun 21, 2021REST API Error Handling in GoHandling errors is really important in Go. Errors are first class citizens and there are many different approaches for handling them. Initially I started off basing my error handling almost entirely on a blog post from Rob Pike and created a carve-out from his code to meet my needs. It…Go7 min readGo7 min read
Jun 21, 2021Emerging from my Gopher HoleInspiration I was inspired recently after listening to Go Time FM episode #167 and Johnny Boursiquot’s callout: “If you are out there, and I’m speaking to you listener, or watcher, if you are out there and thinking/meaning to muster up the energy or overcome the imposter syndrome to write a blog…Go5 min readGo5 min read
Oct 13, 2018HTTP Logging and Go API Template UpdatesI built my first Go library! httplog provides middleware which logs http requests and responses along with a few other features I find useful. I thought it might be helpful for some. At the very least, I tried to document the library reasonably well, spending a lot of time developing…Golang3 min readGolang3 min read
Jul 18, 2018Basic Redis Examples with GoRedis is pretty great. It is the #1 most loved database for the second year in a row, according to a recent Stack Overflow survey. I decided it was high time I taught myself how to use it with Go. There are a number of libraries in the Go ecosystem…Golang4 min readGolang4 min read
Apr 6, 2018Containerizing a Go API with Docker For MacI’m working through creating a RESTful API template. As part of it, I want to be able to “Containerize” my app using docker and deploy it to “the cloud”. Baby steps for me though — I want to get everything working locally first. This post is about “containerizing” my API…Docker9 min readDocker9 min read
Mar 18, 2018HTTP JSON Error Responses in GoI like simple structured messages using JSON in error responses, similar to Stripe, Uber and many others… { "error": { "type": "validation_failed", "message": "Username is a required field" } } In my last story, I wrote about HTTP Logging and in that I mentioned that I have used “chained” middleware…Golang3 min readGolang3 min read
