Persistent Storage with gob
Explore how to use Go’s encoding/gob package to serialize and deserialize URL mappings for persistent storage. Learn to write data to disk, handle errors properly, and restore data on application startup to maintain URL state across sessions.
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When the goto process (the web-server on a port) ends, and this has to happen sooner or later, the map with the shortened URLs in memory will be lost. To preserve our map data, we need to save them to a disk file. We will modify URLStore so that it writes its data to a file, and restores that data on goto start-up. For this, we will use ...
