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Samantha Coyle
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Samantha Coyle

Samantha Coyle, a Software Engineer at Diagrid, specializes in Go for cloud-native developer tooling, abstracting application development challenges. Committed to Open Source, she contributes to projects like Dapr and Testcontainers. She boasts a rich history in retail computer vision solutions and successfully stabilized industrial edge use cases with testing and diverse deployments for biopharma data pipelines. Her expertise extends to being CKAD certified and reviewing Go textbooks. She is passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals. Samantha is in a family of gophers, and enjoys GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She's a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon.
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The Go HTTP Client and its uses

The Go HTTP Client is part of the Go standard library, specifically the net/http package. There are two main ways to use it. The first is to use the default HTTP client that is included in the net/http package. It’s simple to use and allows you to get up and running quickly. The second way is to create your own HTTP client based on the default HTTP client. This allows you to customize the requests and various other things. It takes longer to configure, but it gives you much more freedom and control over the requests you send.

When using an HTTP client, you can send different types of requests. While there are many types of requests, we will discuss the two main ones: the GET request and the POST request. For instance, if you wanted to retrieve data from a server, you would send a GET request. When you enter a web address in your web browser, it will send a GET request to the server at that address and then display the data it returns. If you...

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Samantha Coyle

Samantha Coyle, a Software Engineer at Diagrid, specializes in Go for cloud-native developer tooling, abstracting application development challenges. Committed to Open Source, she contributes to projects like Dapr and Testcontainers. She boasts a rich history in retail computer vision solutions and successfully stabilized industrial edge use cases with testing and diverse deployments for biopharma data pipelines. Her expertise extends to being CKAD certified and reviewing Go textbooks. She is passionate about empowering early-career, diverse professionals. Samantha is in a family of gophers, and enjoys GopherCon with her brother and identical twin sister. She's a seasoned speaker, having presented at various conferences, including GopherCon.
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