Go: Write Log to a File

If you run your application on a server, you need to write your application log to a file. It will help you debug and analyze your application. A good log file will tell you what the error is, when it happened, and where it is come from. This article will show you how to write logs to a file in Go.

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go  logs  linux 

Upload File to Amazon S3 With Go

When your application handles a large number of files, you need to store the files in a certain storage system outside your application server. One of the best storage services is Amazon S3. This article will show you how to create an Amazon S3 Bucket, create access key id and secret, and upload files to Amazon S3 with Go.

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S3  aws  go 

Profiling A Go App With pprof

Profiling an application is helpful to identify resource consumption at runtime. We can see which function consumes the most CPU or memory. We can see if our application is already efficient or not and then find a chance of improvement. In Go, there is pprof, a built-in library for profiling that we can easily use and integrate.

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Distributed Tracing with Jaeger in Go

Distributed tracing is used by software engineers to monitor or debug their applications. It is very useful to find which process takes the most time or which function causes errors. One of the systems to do distributed tracing is Jaeger. This article will show you how to run Jaeger in the local environment and trace a Go application.

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Golang Function Timeout With Context

Timeouts can be important for an application. It can limit how long is the maximum duration of a process. We can save resources by cancel further processes when timeout happened. We can use context to apply a timeout to a function call in Go.

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Zero Downtime Reload With Socketmaster

Nowadays, zero downtime reload is mandatory for most systems. Especially for the system that is accessed all the time. Stakeholders demand the high availability of the system. So it is bad if the system needs downtime for reloads even if it’s in milliseconds. Socketmaster is there to help your system reload with zero downtime.

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Handle Panic in HTTP Server by Using Middleware in Go

If you have code in Go, most likely you have ever encountered a panic. Panic can stop your application if it is not recovered. Fortunately, in the Go HTTP server, there is already a panic recovery, so the server will continue to run if panic is encountered. But the client will not get any response from the server if a panic happens. It is good that you have your own panic recovery that responds with an error message.

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