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Redis: Connect, Set & Get in Go

Thu, 04 May 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Redis is a in-memory data store, used a lot in the backend systems of web-apps. Specifically, it’s good at helping with caching and message as it’s high performance lends itself to fast response times at retriving data.

In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to connect to Redis using Go and the go-redis library, which is one of the most popular and widely-used libraries for interacting with Redis in Go.

Get/Set HTTP Headers in Go Request

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:00:00 +0000

HTTP headers, we all need ’em 😉

Here’s how you can get and set these headers within your Go requests. These include request coming into your router handlers and requests you are sending out to other systems through net/http. This can be thought of as being the same as reading headers from a request and creating new ones.

First we’ll start with reading them from the request.

Update All Go Packages in Your Project

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

If you want to update all dependencies and packages within your project then the simplest way is to use the go get command which handles it all for us. Go modules (go mod) will handle most of the versioning of these packages, so deploying and sharing the project will keep the same package versions.

Using a .env File & Environment Variables

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 09:02:00 +0000

Environment variables are used throughout the coding ecosystem as a way of keeping secrets out of the code. They’re also useful as a way of keeping the code the same between environments, e.g. live, uat and test servers but functionality might work differently.