# Implementing a circuit breaker in go
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Recently I read about the circuit breaker pattern and I believe it is an interesting pattern with many use cases in today’s microservices-centric universe :)
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# Logging in go
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It is common knowledge that logging is super important. It is necessary for debugging purposes on your local environment or for tracing some weird behavior in production. There are several pieces of…
# Load test your API with vegeta
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During the last few years, when I want to load test my APIs, my go to tool is vegeta. It is an awesome load testing command line tool. It is easy to use and its reporting capabilities and features…
# Implementing a bit array in go
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A bit array (or bit set) is an array data structure that stores bits (0 or 1 value) in a space efficient, compact way (read more about bit arrays
# Validating an email in go
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Recently, I wanted to validate emails for a small project I work on. I didn’t want to search for libraries that might do the job, so I decided to build the validation functions myself. My…
# How to time out requests in your go API
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When building an API (or other kinds of applications, to be frank), sometimes it is useful to set some constraints to the task being carried out (e.g. handling an http request to some of your API’s…
# Embedded and promoted fields in go structs
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Structs are one of the most widely used data structures in go. Combined with interfaces and methods, structs allow us model our data in a way that is somehow similar to the object oriented paradigm’s…
# How to use nil channels in Go ?
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Channels is an integral part of Go applications. They are typed conduits that allow communication between different parts of an application. Recently, I came across an interesting pattern which…