When you develop a backend, at some point you always come to the point that you have to explain its interface to other developers. With go-swagger and SwaggerUI we can automatically create an interactive, well-structured API documentation. This blog post shows how to annotate a Golang REST API and create
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Docker Compose: Retry Database Connect With Docker and Go
When I implemented a Docker Compose file that starts our entire system, I stumbled upon a common problem. The database container is ready, but the database itself is not. So the services try to establish a connection, but fail, because the database is still starting.
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Private Golang Registry in Artifactory
The backend of my latest project consists of several microservices written in Go. Each service is built in Jenkins and then deployed to the Openshift Cloud Platform. The one problem we have is that this Jenkins is not allowed to communicate with servers outside of the companie’s network.
Continue readingGo Please! Visual Studio Code + Go Mod + Go Language Server
Since Go 1.11, modules are the official way of managing dependencies in Go. The transition is not as smooth as it should be as it is in a very early stage. The feature is planned to be finalized with Go 1.14.
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In this tutorial, I guide you through the process of writing a Dockerfile which compiles and runs a Golang application packaged into a Docker image. Thereby, I use a multi-stage setup, removing the need for seperate Dockerfiles for compilation and execution.
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CSV to GPX Converter for geocaching.com
You have a file with final coordinates for some mysteries. Editing every geocache coordinate manually takes way too long. Therefore, I wrote a small application which converts a csv to a gpx file, and a user guide on how to automatically upload the gpx file to geocaching.com. The provided GSAK
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