Hungai Amuhinda

In today’s fast-paced world of web development, creating efficient and scalable APIs is crucial. Go, with its simplicity and performance, has become a popular choice for backend development. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to build a robust API using Go and the GoFr framework. Why Go and GoFr? Go’s...

Introduction Go developers face challenges with database interactions. ORMs offer convenience but sacrifice control. Raw SQL provides control but lacks safety. pgx/v5 and sqlc bridge this gap. pgx/v5 acts as a PostgreSQL driver. It offers high performance and low-level control. sqlc generates Go code from SQL queries. It provides type...

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the process of creating a RESTful API for a simple blog application using Go. We’ll be using the following technologies: Gin: A web framework for Go FerretDB: A MongoDB-compatible database oapi-codegen: A tool for generating Go server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3.0 specifications Table of...

“Building a Scalable Order Processing System with Temporal and Go” Series Part 1 - Setting Up the Foundation Part 2 - Advanced Temporal Workflows Part 3 - Advanced Database Operations Part 4 - Monitoring and Alerting Part 5 - Distributed Tracing and Logging Part 6 - Production Readiness and Scalability...

“Building a Scalable Order Processing System with Temporal and Go” Series Part 1 - Setting Up the Foundation Part 2 - Advanced Temporal Workflows Part 3 - Advanced Database Operations Part 4 - Monitoring and Alerting Part 5 - Distributed Tracing and Logging Part 6 - Production Readiness and Scalability...