This is a stripped version of
https://github.com/Dmdv/modern-go-application
I removed the sample application to keep it clean for further development

I will be enriching this project with less overengineering practices compared to the original template.

Go application boilerplate and example applying modern practices

This repository tries to collect the best practices of application development using Go language. In addition to the language specific details, it also implements various language independent practices.

Some areas Modern Go Boostrap touches:

• architecture
• package structure
• building the application
• testing
• configuration
• running the application (e.g. in Docker)
• developer environment/experience
• telemetry

To help adopt these practices, this repository also serves as a boilerplate for new applications.

• configuration (using spf13/viper)
• logging (using logur.dev/logur and sirupsen/logrus)
• error handling (using emperror.dev/emperror)
• metrics and tracing using Prometheus and Jaeger (via OpenCensus)
• health checks (using AppsFlyer/go-sundheit)
• graceful restart (using cloudflare/tableflip) and shutdown
• support for multiple server/daemon instances (using oklog/run)
• messaging (using ThreeDotsLabs/watermill)
• MySQL database connection (using go-sql-driver/mysql)
• Redis connection (using gomodule/redigo) removed due to lack of usage (see #120)

To test or demonstrate the application it comes with a simple load generation tool. You can use it to test the example endpoints and generate some load (for example in order to fill dashboards with data).

Follow the instructions in etc/loadgen.

See INSPIRATION.md for links to articles, projects, code examples that somehow inspired me while working on this project.