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Building an Events Application: Querying events and indexing with GIN

Nov 3, 2024 · 5 min read · In my last blog post we explored how to expose a simple API using the Echo Go framework and GORM ORM. We also took a look at how I wanted to represent an event in the database, including using tags and geolocation for search and filtering purposes. G...

Building an Events Application: Kickstarting Development with Echo and GORM in Go

Sep 24, 2024 · 6 min read · In my previous blog post “Choosing the right tools,” I decided to develop the events application using the Echo web framework for Golang and GORM for database querying. In this post, we will begin developing the API for the events application. But fi...

Building an Events Application: Choosing the right tools

Sep 11, 2024 · 6 min read · So much water has flowed under the bridge since my last blog post. Mind you that I have been working quite a lot on this project, I just didn't get around to write about it. So, let's pick up where we left off! In my last post I talked about some of ...

Building an Events Application: Requirements and discussion of choice of technologies

Jul 11, 2024 · 6 min read · Right! In my previous post I talked about my project of creating an events application as an alternative to facebook events. In this article we will discuss user- and performance requirements, and talk briefly about possible technologies to use for t...

Starting Out: Building an Events Application

May 28, 2024 · 4 min read · The motivation I have long been pissed at facebook. Partly because it keeps people, including myself, in an infinite death scroll whenever they decide to open the app. But primarily my problem with facebook is that it still have a few features which ...