Jan 5A Shot of NepalA roller-coaster of emotions and learning — Just like every year, My friends and I decided to gift ourselves a bag full of memories for the new year 2022. We went on a trip into the bosom of snowy peaks, The Mighty Himalayas, NEPAL, home to the highest peak in the world, and many eight-thousanders. It all…Nepal7 min read
Published in CodeX·Sep 11, 2021Using gRPC and ProtoBuf in JavaThis article is part of the series Building a Web Server — Welcome back to the Building a Web Server series. So far we’ve primarily focused on writing web servers in GoLang. However, I’ve received requests to write an article on how the gRPC implementation can be done using Java, and what are the available libraries and options to achieve the same. …Java4 min read
Sep 1, 2021And the heart yearns for love!— from the diaries of Komal Chawla — Like Kites! I can’t help but compare us With those two kites flying up in the sky They dance They tease Their strings strangle Then, one of them falls far far away And this reality will never ever change.Poem2 min read
Published in The Startup·Feb 13, 2021Using gRPC and ProtoBuf in GoLangThis article is part of the series GoLang: Building a Web Server — Welcome back to the Building a Web Server series. In the last article, we learned how to write a basic RPC server in Go using the native package provided by GoLang. We have used plain English to receive requests and send responses from our server till now. …Golang3 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Jan 31, 2021Writing an RPC server in GoThis article is part of the series GoLang: Building a Web Server — Hey fellow coders, in the last article we learned how to Write Fx Modules and added a logging module into our project. Continuing on the same codebase, we will add support for serving RPC requests. What is RPC? RPC stands for Remote Procedure Call. It is a type of Inter-Process Communication that uses…Golang3 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Jan 26, 2021Writing Fx ModulesThis article is part of the series GoLang: Building a Web Server — In the previous article, we explored how we can convert a manually wired HTTP web server into a DI-based web server using the Fx library. Now once we have that in place, our next step is to add functionalities to our server .i.e business logic. But before we jump into…Golang4 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 23, 2021Dependency Injection in Go using FxThis article is part of the series GoLang: Building a Web Server — As professionals, we should never stop learning. Learning is the one true way to ensure we stay in demand and continue delivering value to our customers. Doctors, lawyers, and scientists are all highly respected professionals and all focus on continuously learning. Why should programmers be different? Hence, continuing where we…Golang4 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Jan 17, 2021GoLang: Building a Web ServerWhen you read the term web server, what pops up in your mind? Having worked on Java before I moved on to GoLang, the very first thing that comes to me is Spring and its complex configurations. …Golang2 min read
Jan 16, 2021A day in AmbarsarRe-living Amritsar, 4th Jan 2020 I and my friend decided to visit the holy land of Sikhs on the first weekend of 2020 and what a blissful weekend it turned out to be. Have you ever had vegetarian food that makes you feel high? Have you had a chance to…Amritsar5 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Aug 29, 2020Gorm Vs. Xorm (part 1)And the state of ORM’s in GoLang — With this one, I continue to explore GORM through the series of articles. In the past, I have talked about my learnings about GORM and shared plugins like audit and batch upsert. …Gorm4 min read
