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Deepak Prasad

Deepak Prasad

R&D Engineer

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Founder of GoLinuxCloud with more than 15 years of expertise in Linux, Python, Go, Laravel, DevOps, Kubernetes, Git, Shell scripting, OpenShift, AWS, Networking, and Security. With extensive experience, he excels across development, DevOps, networking, and security, delivering robust and efficient solutions for diverse projects.

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Certifications & credentials

  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStackID: 180-246-001
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
  • Go: Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns With Go
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Articles by Deepak Prasad

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Golang Web Server Tutorial: Build and Configure an HTTP Server in Go

Learn how to build a Go web server using net/http, configure routes, handlers, ports, timeouts, static files, JSON responses, and graceful shutdown.

Deepak Prasad13 min read
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Golang Closure Function: Closures, Captured Variables, and Performance

Learn closures in Go: function values that capture outer variables, how they differ from anonymous functions, returned functions and state, goroutine loop pitfalls, and golang closure performance and escape analysis.

Deepak Prasad6 min read
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Golang Buffered Channel: Capacity, Blocking, and Buffered vs Unbuffered

Learn buffered channels in Go: make(chan T,n) capacity, len and cap, when send and receive block, buffered vs unbuffered channels, backpressure, deadlocks, choosing buffer size, and practical patterns.

Deepak Prasad5 min read
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Golang Regexp Tutorial: Match, Find, Replace, and Extract Regex Groups

Learn how to use regex in Go with the regexp package, including MatchString, Compile, MustCompile, FindString, submatches, ReplaceAllString, Split, and common mistakes.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
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Goroutine vs Thread in Go: Are Goroutines the Same as Threads?

Understand the difference between goroutines and OS threads in Go, how the Go runtime scheduler maps goroutines onto threads, and why goroutines are lightweight.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
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Golang portping: TCP checks with Ping and PingN (sequential, parallel, ranges)

Golang portping with janosgyerik/portping: set up module, Ping and PingN API, sequential and parallel TCP checks, port ranges, PingN result handling, retries, per-dial timing, CLI install, common dial errors; links to …

Deepak Prasad8 min read
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Go ternary operator: idiomatic alternatives to `?:` (if, switch, min, cmp.Or)

Go has no ?: ternary; idiomatic equivalent is if/else or switch. Covers lazy branches, min/max builtins, cmp.Or defaults, generic pick helpers, pitfalls of eager helpers, optional julien040/go-ternary, links to if/else, …

Deepak Prasad6 min read
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Golang store values in a struct using a for loop

Store slice values into structs with for range, golang iterate over struct fields with reflect, and a short golang forloop refresher—correct Go, no broken examples.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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Golang Time Package: time.Now, Duration, Format, and Parse Examples

Use Go time package for time.Now, time.Duration, formatting and parsing, Add and Sub, Since and Until, comparing times, Sleep, Timer, and Ticker basics, plus common mistakes.

Deepak Prasad8 min read
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Golang background process: start, monitor, and wait with os/exec

Golang start process and spawn with os/exec Start Wait and Run; CommandContext timeouts; goroutines channels WaitGroup for golang background jobs; go run in background vs shell; wait golang patterns.

Deepak Prasad4 min read
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Golang Switch Case Statement: Examples, Multiple Cases, and Type Switch

Use the switch statement in Go for switch case and default, comma-separated cases, expressionless switch, initial statements, type switch on any, fallthrough, and patterns that replace long if-else chains.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
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Install Go on Ubuntu: apt, snap, or official tarball (with checksum)

Installing golang on Ubuntu: apt golang-go, snap install go --classic, official go.dev/dl tarball with sha256 verify, optional build-from-source with bootstrap Go, amd64 and arm64, PATH and GOBIN, go version, go mod init …

Deepak Prasad7 min read
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Golang get IP address: local IPv4/IPv6, hostname, and Linux interfaces

Golang get ip address and golang get local ip: net.InterfaceAddrs and Interfaces for linux get local ip, golang get hostname with LookupHost, go get ip address heuristics, golang get local ip address without loopback, …

Deepak Prasad3 min read
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Golang read password from stdin: x/term ReadPassword and TTY checks

Golang read password from stdin with golang.org/x/term ReadPassword: pkg.go.dev ReadPassword IsTerminal, example os.Stdin.Fd and syscall.Stdin on Linux, ReadPassword Windows and platforms, no echo vs golang asterisk …

Deepak Prasad3 min read
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Golang user input: Scan, Scanf, and bufio for stdin

How to take input in golang and golang get user input from stdin: fmt.Scan Scanln Scanf for typed tokens, golang read input with bufio; go read user input and how to get user input in go with line-based reads; input …

Deepak Prasad3 min read
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Golang panic and recover: defer, stack unwinding, and catch-style recovery

Golang panic and go panic: how unwinding works with defer; golang recover from panic and go recover panic in a deferred function (go catch panic / golang catch panic pattern); panic vs errors and os.Exit; logging with …

Deepak Prasad4 min read
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Golang garbage collection: GC, heap, GOGC, runtime.GC, and tuning

Golang garbage collection and golang gc: go garbage collector basics, heap in golang and HeapAlloc, golang force garbage collection with runtime.GC, GOGC and GOMEMLIMIT, gctrace, pprof, and garbage collection in go for …

Deepak Prasad14 min read
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Create Nested Directories in Go (os.Mkdir, os.MkdirAll, mkdir -p)

Create nested directories in Go with os.Mkdir per level, os.MkdirAll for a full path in one call, filepath.Join for portable paths, optional os.Stat guards, or exec.Command mkdir -p when shell semantics are acceptable.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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Copy Files in Go While Preserving Permissions

Copy a file in Go with os.Open, io.Copy to os.Create, then os.Chmod from os.FileInfo.Mode; or use os.ReadFile and os.WriteFile with the source mode; os.Rename moves within a filesystem rather than copying.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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Convert a Slice to a Map in Go (Set, Index Map, Group Duplicates)

Build a map from a slice in Go: use elements as keys for set-like maps, pick struct fields as keys, map indices to values, or map keys to slices of positions for duplicates.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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Convert int to string in Go (strconv, fmt, bytes.Buffer)

Convert int to string in Go with strconv.Itoa or strconv.FormatInt, fmt.Sprintf or fmt.Fprintf to an io.Writer, and strings.Builder for custom assembly; compare with general type conversion in Go.

Deepak Prasad1 min read
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Go context Package: Cancel, Timeout, Deadlines, and Values

Use golang context for deadlines and cancellation: Background and TODO roots, WithCancel, WithTimeout, WithDeadline, and WithValue for request-scoped data; always call cancel and pass ctx as the first parameter.

Deepak Prasad3 min read
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Golang Shiny: windows, events, and drawing with x/exp/shiny

Experimental desktop GUIs with golang.org/x/exp/shiny: driver.Main, screen buffers, paint and lifecycle events from x/mobile, resize-safe drawing, and when to prefer Fyne, Gio, Ebiten, or Wails.

Deepak Prasad8 min read
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Go uint8 conversion: string to uint8, uint8 to string, and byte examples

Parse numeric strings into uint8 with strconv.ParseUint and bit size 8, convert uint8 to digit strings vs runes with FormatUint and string(), byte alias, string indexing, []uint8 slices, wider ParseUint sizes, RGB and …

Deepak Prasad8 min read
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Call a Function From Another Package or File in Go

Call Go code from another file or another package: what to import, when you do not need an import, capital letters for public functions, and how to fix typical errors.

Deepak Prasad7 min read
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go list installed packages: list Go packages, modules, and install paths

go list command for std, ./..., and all; go list -m all for modules; where Go stores packages (GOMODCACHE, GOROOT, GOPATH/bin); list go packages and binaries from go install without mistaking modules for a global package …

Deepak Prasad4 min read
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Golang Anonymous Function Explained with Examples

Learn anonymous functions in Go: function literals, immediate calls, parameters and return values, variables, callbacks, closures, goroutines, and common mistakes like loop capture.

Deepak Prasad7 min read
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Convert Go []byte to string (Casting, Builder, Buffer, strconv)

Convert go bytes to string with string(b), fmt.Sprintf, strings.Builder or bytes.Buffer, strconv for numbers, and know when copying happens for UTF-8 text and binary data.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
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Golang integer types: int, int32, int64, uint, and sizes

Golang int and go int types, golang int types and sizes, golang int vs int32, uint and sized integers, byte and rune aliases, and how golang data types size depends on int versus int8–int64.

Deepak Prasad4 min read
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Golang CPU affinity on Linux: sched_setaffinity, taskset, GOMAXPROCS

Golang CPU affinity on Linux: cpu masking with golang.org/x/sys/unix SchedSetaffinity, taskset from Go, runtime.LockOSThread for set thread affinity, and why gomaxprocs golang is not affinity.

Deepak Prasad4 min read