If you are a web developer you would have mostly given Visual Studio Code a shot and might be using it as your editor of choice. The extensive support for extensions gives a lot of power to the users to customize the editor to their liking. As I use it as my daily code editor of choice and primarily a web developer myself, working with Angular and React, I will be sharing a few extensions that help ease my coding and related activities.

Code formatting

These are a few extensions that help in speeding up development while being able to assess code…

Sometime back, I created a tiny URL generator using GoLang, PostgreSQL and Redis (More about it here). Now, it’s time to deploy it on the cloud.

In this article, I will be giving a quick run-down of steps I followed to deploy my GoLang service to the cloud. My cloud platform of choice is Heroku. It is simple, provides the required database and cache services out of the box and has a free tier!

Let’s begin by provisioning the required services on Heroku. Firstly, create an account, setup the CLI tools on your computer and create a new app from…

Not long ago, I had learnt to create a tiny URL generator using Node JS, Postgres and Redis for learning Node after coming across an article. Recently, I came across a problem where I had to create a micro-service in Golang. So, I wanted to build a tiny URL generator using Golang for learning. I’m writing this article to put forward my experience and serve as a reference for anyone trying to create one.

My focus in this article will be mainly on the code. I would be providing links to some guides I used to setup the development environment.I…