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Laravel to Go — Part 2 — Routing and Handlers

Time to tackle to Routing and Handlers in Golang from a Laravel perspective.

4 min readApr 30, 2022

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Laravel to Go — Part 2 — Routing and Handlers

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I was a s**t engineering team lead, are you?

I was a terrible engineering lead my first time, let me help you not make the same mistakes.

6 min readFeb 9, 2021

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A burning image, demonstrating the effects of bad management

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Reducing Network Round-Trips in PostgreSQL when using pgx in Go

How you can batch send SQL queries using PGX in Go and a utility called pgxwrapper

3 min readApr 2, 2023

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Reducing Network Round-Trips in PostgreSQL when using pgx in Go

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Laravel to Go — Part 3 — Middleware and Requst Validation

This is Part 3 in the series so If you have not seen Part 1 then please visit that article first and please give me follow so you get…

3 min readMay 9, 2022

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How to use CDATA tag in Go - when making XML Requests with special characters

How to parse special character data in XML — using the cdata tag on your request struct

3 min readJul 28, 2021

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Laravel to Go - Part 1 - Basics

This is the first part in a group of articles on how to move from Laravel to Go. This first part is very basic, but gets you started

4 min readJun 16, 2021

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Laravel to Go - Part 1 - Basics

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How to configure your Go Modules Proxy in VSCode?

3 min readMay 10, 2021

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Beer Watch - Where and how to search for beer?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could find that craft beer you wanted without having to search multiple online stores?

1 min readApr 13, 2021

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Beer Watch - Where and how to search for beer?

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WSL2 — How To Fix Download Speed

Download speed was so so slow! Here is the fix

3 min readFeb 15, 2021

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Stack Overflow — Now let’s learn how to answer

Writing an answer on Stack Overflow can be scary, how do you format an answer? How do you develop a solution? Let’s start with the basics

5 min readFeb 7, 2021

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Stack Overflow — Now let’s learn how to answer

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Chris Townsend

Chris Townsend

I'm a Software Engineer, Mentor, Leader and Procrastinator. I've been developing for over 7 years and been a techie since I could hold a mouse

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