Category Archives: Go

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with the added benefits of memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.

Golang: writing an AWS Load Balancer logs collector for VictoriaLogs
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6 December 2025

The next task I want to do with Golang is building a custom log collector that retrieves AWS Application Load Balancer logs from S3 and sends them to VictoriaLogs. Sure, we could simply use Vector.dev, like what I did for AWS VPC Flow Logs (see: Vector.dev introduction, logs from AWS S3, and VictoriaLogs integration). But… Read More »

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Golang: interfaces – the “magic” of calling methods through interface
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29 November 2025

Interfaces in Go allow you to describe access to data or behavior without providing concrete implementations inside the interface itself. In this way, we create a “common bus” that we can then use to “connect” external “systems.” In other words, an interface is an abstraction that defines a contract. The contract describes what can be… Read More »

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Kubernetes: what are the Kubernetes Operator and CustomResourceDefinition
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21 July 2025

Perhaps everyone has used operators in Kubernetes, for example, PostgreSQL operator, VictoriaMetrics Operator. But what’s going on under the hood? How and to what are CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) applied, and what is an “operator”? And finally, what is the difference between a Kubernetes Operator and a Kubernetes Controller? In the previous part – Kubernetes: Kubernetes APIs,… Read More »

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Golang: pointers – detailed overview
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20 April 2019

What is the pointer? Shortly, the pointer is a variable which stores an address of another variable, where some data is stored. A pointer example Let’s take the simplest example where a pointer is used: package main import “fmt” func main() { a := 1 b := &a fmt.Println(“A: “, a) fmt.Println(“B: “, b) fmt.Println(“B:… Read More »

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Go: checking public repositories list in Github. Go slices comparison. The first Golang experience.
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13 April 2019

The task is to write a tool which will be started from a Jenkin’s job by a cron and will check an organization’s public repositories list in the Github. A Docker-image build and a Jenkins job are described in the Jenkins: a job to check a Github organization’s public repositories list post. Then it has… Read More »

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