#Go

Most developers will have to interact with SQL at some point in their career, and often nowadays that means working with Postgres. I’ve been using Postgres with Go for a few years now and have found a couple of libraries that work really well together to make the Go Postgres experience productive, safe and fun. TL:DR; I have created an example repo that puts all of the below into practice: github. [Read More]

Introduction Best practices for performing client authentication with gRPC is a question that comes up again and again, so I thought I’d dive into a few different methods for performing authentication, using the tools provided by the Go gRPC packages. Today we’ll explore 3 methods of authentication: TLS Client certificate authentication Token Header authenticaiton HTTP Basic authentication For the TL:DR; check the example repo. Note: Go-gRPC interceptors are being redesigned, so if you implement this in your server today, you may want to keep in mind that it will change again in the future. [Read More]

Introduction It’s often said that gRPC is tied to the Google Protocol Buffers payload format, but this is not strictly true. While the default format for gRPC payloads is Protobuf, the gRPC-Go implementation exposes a Codec interface which allows arbitrary payload encoding. This could be used for all kinds of things, like your own binary format, using flatbuffers, or, as we shall see today, using JSON for requests and responses. [Read More]