go-grpc-middleware VS viper

Hello, Those interviews are even crazy for internship. Anyway 1. Try to find a simple CRUD example online. You can check [this](https://tutorialedge.net/golang/go-grpc-beginners-tutorial/) 2. For logging you can check [go-grpc-middleware](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware) 3. You can grpc-gateway in case they want some REST endpoints too 4. Use base62 to encode your url. So at least 2 columns in your table **shortenedUrl** and **url** 5. For such a project no need to use an ORM ( it's not advised anyway ). Implement 2 functions, one to insert into the db and the other one to read from the db. Remember to use transaction though 5. For unit tests go with the standard library and mock the 2 functions ( erroneous and valid cases )

Supported middlewares by gRPC framework.

I do some basic validation at the server layer using a GRPC interceptor.

Example auth middleware: https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware/blob/master/auth/examples_test.go

And initialize our gRPC service, here i used gRPC Middleware repository for unary interceptors:

I found this is very good gRPC Middleware repository, but we easy can create our own, for example logger interceptor:

Once environment variables are setup we need load them into our project. For this this i will use viper

The code uses Viper to load configuration files in the application.

github.com/spf13/viper

Instead of directly accessing environment variables with os.Getenv(), integrating a configuration handler like viper might make it maintainable.

I guess most people are using https://github.com/spf13/viper but I don't know if I should read everything from

Use Viper for config file or environmental variable configuration -- it's going to save you a whole lot of time.

Cobra and Viper.

I've mostly been using https://github.com/spf13/viper of late for my go projects. It supports the standard config formats, (json, yaml, toml etc) and lets you override any value with a ENV value.