Go

If you don’t know yet, there were major changes by Google in protobuf and gRPC implementation for Go. New version should be better in all means so you should switch as soon as possible, if you are already using these technologies. In this article I am going to focus on Linux variant, but the upgrade procedure should be quite similar on OSX or Windows. In order to use protobuf compiler or generator, if you wish, you had to install protoc compiler....

Someone may ask what is so special about serving single-page applications? Well, if you use hash (#) based URL’s like <em>https://yourdomain.com/#/yourroute</em> , there is no problem because browser recognize that this is a default page with some parameters and doesn’t make another request to the server. However, if you want to use non-hash based routes, there is a problem if you try to refresh a non-default route. In this case browser’s default action is to load such URL from the server and there is no such document on the server....

This is the first step of my intention to write a series of articles where I would explain some common patterns used in Golang. Let’s start with generator pattern : 1type Generator func() <-chan int Generator is a function or method which returns a sequence of values. In Golang, this usually means returning a channel of values of desired type. In our example, we will return a channel of integers. Let’s see an implementation of this:...

Official Golang documentation contains just tar.gz package to be downloaded and installed on Ubuntu Linux, but this is not quite comfortable way because Golang won’t be automatically updated after new release. Fortunatelly, there is trustable PPA that can be used. 1 2 3 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install golang-go