I was recently restructuring one of my early Go side projects. As I was changing the project layout, I was reminded there are many recommendations out there but no set standard for structuring Golang projects. In other programming languages such as Java, there is a typical project layout that most…

I see this one question pop up in channels over and over again. “What is the best way to mock a database for unit tests?” For most, the thought of mocking responses from a database is daunting. …

Recently I wanted to revamp one of my side projects go-quick. This project is a boilerplate web application meant to be a starting point for Go apps. Previously, I wrote a custom config package within the project to pull configuration from Environment Variables as per the 12 Factor Apps manifest…

When I was learning Golang, one of the concepts that took me the most time to grasp was Interfaces. Golang’s Interfaces are a great way to make modular and testable code. But they can also be a bit confusing at first glance. One of the best ways I’ve found to…

Before learning Go, I used to write most of my applications in Python. When I was transitioning from Python to Go, I was familiar with parsing JSON, YAML, etc., into Python dictionaries. What I never understood is why I would see so many examples parsing JSON into Go structs. Why…