Nov 28, 2020building http based clients in GoWhen I came from the very dynamic world of ruby, my first approach to designing HTTP clients in go was to think about mocking similar to what I was used to in Ruby. I quickly learned that it’s not the ideal approach in Go, and over time have learned a…Golang2 min readGolang2 min read
Nov 21, 2020Using the net/http package in goWhen I started picking up the go language years ago, things that stood out to me immediately were the io and net/http packages. Both of those packages were extremely well done and minimal in the amount of interfaces they exposed to the user. What I love about net/http The two things which stand out for…Golang2 min readGolang2 min read
Nov 14, 2020Dependency Injection in GoWhen I mention dependency injection to folks who have Java or .NET backgrounds it usually invokes a few sets of questions — to which my usual response is: It’s likely not as sophisticated as what you’re thinking — and it doesn’t have to be! While there are methods to use…Golang3 min readGolang3 min read
Mar 27, 2020atomically closing termination channels in GoOne of the most prevalent patterns when managing the lifecycle of goroutines in Go is to have a done channel. Here’s a quick example showing this in action: done := make(chan struct{}) for { select { case <-done: return case job := <-jobs: // execute job } } In fact…Golang2 min readGolang2 min read
