golang

Recently, I had to check the connectivity to a Redis 6 TLS enabled and password protected instance. In this post, I want to give you an overview of the different approaches to verify if a Redis is up and reachable.

What is so special about a single binary with Go you might ask? That is nothing special and a major feature of Go out of the box. Things change when you want to bundle template files and static assets for your Gin-Gonic web application in one binary. In this post I’ll explain how I built a single binary web application with HTML templates, CSS, JS and more included.