Handling 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…

Inspiration

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…

I 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…

Redis 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…

I’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…

I 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…