Florin Pățan

Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Using Kubernetes from GoLand

This is the last part of our series on running a Go service using Docker, Docker Compose, or Kubernetes. In this part, we'll focus exclusively on running and debugging when using Kubernetes clusters. While we won't cover how to install and configure a Kubernetes cluster, a variety of tools, such...

Florin Pățan

• 4 min read

Running Go applications using Docker Compose in GoLand

Today we’ll be continuing our series on how to use Docker [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/go/2020/05/04/go-development-with-docker-containers/] to run and debug Go applications [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/go/2020/05/06/debugging-a-go-application-inside-a-docker-container/] . In ...

Florin Pățan

• 3 min read

Improvements and bug fixes of GoLand 2020.1.2

Today, I'm happy to announce that GoLand 2020.1.2 is out and ready to be downloaded. You can update to 2020.1.2 by: * downloading it from the website [https://www.jetbrains.com/go/download/]. * updating via the Toolbox App. [https://toolbox.app] * applying a patch to 2020.1.1 (from inside the...

Florin Pățan

• 2 min read

Debugging a Go application inside a Docker container

In the previous article [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/go/2020/05/04/go-development-with-docker-containers/] of this series, we discussed how to get started using Docker to run our Go applications. Today, we’ll take a look at how to debug a Go application that runs inside a container. Cr...

Florin Pățan

• 3 min read

Go development with Docker Containers

Today we start a miniseries of articles about the support inside GoLand for Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes and how it can help us write (micro-)services in Go. We’ll look at how to configure the project in the IDE, how to use either Docker or Kubernetes to run or debug our project, and...

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• 5 min read

Go Modules Support Improvements in GoLand 2020.1

GoLand 2020.1 brings a lot of new features to Go Modules support, and today we'll take a look at them and learn how to use them to maximize our productivity. We'll cover: * Go Environment Variables [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/go/2020/04/13/go-modules-support-improvements-in-goland...

Florin Pățan

• 4 min read

Working with Go Modules – Versioning

Hello again. This is the third, and final, article from our series on Go Modules. In this article, we'll cover how to version our project and manage the migration to a new major version. In case you missed the previous posts, here's a list of articles from the series: * Starting with a new Go ...

Florin Pățan

• 3 min read

Working with Go Modules - Dependency management

In this second article from our series on Go Modules, we'll cover how to manage project dependencies:. This series of articles is broken down into the following sections: * Starting with a new Go Module from scratch [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/go/2020/02/26/working-with-go-modules...

Florin Pățan

• 4 min read

Test Driven Development with GoLand

Test-Driven Development, or TDD as it is commonly referred to, is the development process in which tests are written first, then the code to support them is created, and, when every test passes, code is refactored. Let's have a look at how the unique features of GoLand allow us to be proficient ...

Florin Pățan

• 3 min read

GoLand Editing Features You Didn't Know About

Let's take a look at what GoLand 2020.1 brings in terms of editing features to help us save time when we have to edit our Go code. We can start with some of the more obvious things, like parameter names. When implementing an interface, parameter names are suggested automatically: But you can a...

Florin Pățan

• 2 min read

How to Find Goroutines During Debugging

Goroutines are an essential part of most programs written in Go. But using lots of goroutines makes a program harder to debug. Or does it? In this blog post, we'll take a look at labeling goroutines with custom data, one of the latest features in GoLand 2020.1 [https://www.jetbrains.com/go/nextve...

Florin Pățan

• 5 min read

26 February 2020

Working with Go Modules – Getting started

Development for Go Modules continues in Go 1.13 and the support GoLand has for them too. Today, we'll have a look at how to transform our development model to use them without hassle. This series of articles is broken down into the following sections: * Starting with a new Go Module from scrat...

Florin Pățan

• 4 min read

18 February 2020

Running GoLand on a Raspberry Pi 4

Let's learn how to make GoLand, or any JetBrains IDE, work on a Raspberry Pi 4 [https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/], a popular development single-board computer. We'll cover: * Requirements [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/go/2020/02/18/running-goland-on-a-ras...

Florin Pățan

• 8 min read