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Welcome back to the second part of our exploration into building web servers using GoLang! In the previous blog post, we discussed creating a basic web server using the http.ListenAndServe function. However, this does not give us more control over the server config and to gain more control and flexibility over the server’s behaviour, you’re in for a treat. In this article, we’ll delve into the world of custom servers by utilizing the http....

The net/http package in Go offers a powerful set of tools for constructing HTTP servers to handle incoming requests and send responses. In this article, we’ll dive into setting up a basic HTTP server. Before we delve into the specifics, let’s familiarize ourselves with a couple of key terms: Multiplexer (or Mux): This is an essential component of an HTTP server that routes incoming requests to the appropriate handlers based on the requested paths or URLs....

While working with route53, I came across a couple of DNS records which were new to me. There are several types of DNS (Domain Name System) records, each with a specific purpose. Here are some of the most common types: A record (Address record) Maps a hostname to an IPv4 address. example.com IN A 192.0.2.1 AAAA record (IPv6 Address record) Maps a hostname to an IPv6 address. example.com IN AAAA 2001:db8::1 CNAME record (Canonical Name record) Maps an alias hostname to the true hostname (canonical name)....

fmt is one of the essential packages in Golang. fmt stands for “format.” This package allows us to format strings, print output, and interact with the standard input/output streams. In this blog post, we will explore the key functionalities of the fmt package. you can import the package as shown: import "fmt" Printing to standard output There are various functions available for printing such as fmt.Println , fmt.Print and fmt.Print...

working with open-source Go modules is more straightforward, you add them in Go mod files and run Go mod commands and it just works. Recently, I came across private Go modules usage in one of my projects at work and thought of writing about it so it can help someone :) if you have only one repo then you can do export GOPRIVATE=github.com/yourorg/yourrepo If you have more than one private module, you can run the following:...

Unlike other Languages, Golang does not have multiple looping constructs. It has only one for. But, I think that’s enough to cover all the use cases, let’s see different variations of loops. Basic Loop In basic for loop, there are 3 elements, initialization: i := 1 condition: i<=5 post: i++ loop will continue to run until the postcondition is true. for i := 1; i <= 5; i++ { fmt.Println(i) } output:...

In this post, we will see different Kubernetes clients, the client is something that you can use to talk to the Kubernetes cluster. Mainly, there are 3 ways to talk to a cluster: kubectl Console/Dashboard programmatically using clients The Kubernetes community maintains clients in various languages in this repo. Since Kubernetes is in Golang, a client library known as client-go is widely used. But there are clients available in other interesting languages :)...