Avatar Service for All using Golang

By Daniel Olfelt in golang on

Users love avatars, and they love to customize them, which is why I wrote this simple service that easily creates custom avatars for any purpose. The service is light, uses S3 for storage, and can be run easily from a single binary file. tl;dr;  Check out the source code…

Configuration in Golang

By Daniel Olfelt in golang on

Configuration can sometimes be difficult. Pulling variables outside your source that change based on environment or other external services is very important to maintaining your application. Many people use YAML or config files in the native language. When dealing with configuration using Golang, I’ve always defaulted to using JSON.…