javascript Exploring Distributed Systems Part 2: Sidecar Pattern Part 2 Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the last post of this series, we looked at a basic sidecar pattern, to wrap around a service, direct traffic to it,
distributed Exploring Distributed Systems Part 1: Sidecar Pattern Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. Introduction Part 1: Sidecar Pattern This series will attempt to demonstrate some examples of common, distributed systems, inspired by some of the patterns
Serverless Start-ups in Golang - Part 2 Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. Part 1 - Introduction - Getting started Part 2 - Static front-ends in S3 (todo) Part 3 - Authentication (todo) Part 4 -
serverless Serverless Start-ups in Golang - Part 1 Multi-part series in building start-ups using serverless technologies
circleci Microservices in Golang - Part 10 - Summary Wow, what a journey it has been! These posts took months to finish. The first post started late 2017, we're nearly half way through 2018 and I'm just writing the final post. It
circleci Microservices in Golang - Part 9 - Deployments with CircleCI Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In this part of the series, we're going to briefly look at setting up continuous integration with one of our services, using CircleCI.
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golang Why I refuse to give up code comments There's a growing movement in software whereby programmers are conciously omitting code comments from their code. Is this always practical? Or has it become a moral crusade?
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 7 - Terraform a Cloud Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the previous post, we touched briefly on user interfaces and web clients and how to interact with our newly created rpc services
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golang Microservices in Golang - Part 5 - Event brokering with Go Micro Image credit: Jasper Van Der Meij Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the previous part in this series, we touched upon user authentication and JWT. In this episode,
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golang Microservices in Golang - part 3 - docker-compose and datastores 用中文阅读. Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the previous post, we covered some of the basics of go-micro and Docker. We also introduced a second service. In this
go Microservices in Golang - part 2 - Docker and go-micro Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. 用中文阅读 Introduction - Part 2 Docker and go-micro In the previous post, we covered the basics of writing a gRPC based microservice. In
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 1 用中文阅读. Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. Introduction This is a ten part series, released weekly on writing microservices in Golang. Making use of protobuf and gRPC as the
life Why I fell in love with vinyl Go back three years or so, and I was 'slagging off' vinyl lovers, as hipster, revivalist luddites. Spotify can store nearly all of the worlds vast back catalogue of music in the cloud
Good code is behavioural code A few years ago, as a junior php dev, I discovered traits. Something felt remarkable about them. It was more than just a workaround for inheritance problems. It introduced a notion of 'behaviours'
js A simple JS CLI tool for switching Google Cloud projects I've recently been using Google Cloud for several projects, both at work and my personal projects. One thing I found tedious, was switching between projects, I'd always forget a step and find I
javascript A brief introduction to Async Await Asynchronous code is both a blessing, and a curse in JavaScript. Whilst it allows you to write more efficient code. Sometimes you need JavaScript to be synchronous. In other words, sometimes you need
golang How to *never* complete anything I've been a professional programmer now for about five years. I've been coding for perhaps a little over seven years, in that time, besides tasks in my day jobs. I have completed absolutely
microservices Running microservices locally Over the past few months I've been slowly splitting out my start-up's backend code into microservices. Our features can be clearly defined as separate apps with separate responsibilities. Which we wanted to be
life Use your Amazon Echo to buy weed Disclaimer: this is all totally hypothetical, of course. This blog doesn't necessarily condone illicitly buying cannabis. I've seen people use their Amazon echo to do some incredible things. So I thought I'd lower
life What it's like to quit drinking for a year DISCLAIMER: I don't like writing 'personal' blog posts, you'll see from the rest of my blog, it's all programming tutorials. But I felt like this was worth writing about, and could potentially help
golang Efficiency with Go channels I've been building a Facebook bot recently using Golang, the bot checks the incoming message text for a certain set of strings. These are called 'rules' within the bot. Nothing fancy, just simple
life The hardest part about writing software The hardest part about writing software, for me at least. Is not learning the right language, or finding the right tools. It's not about using the correct algorithms or design patterns. For me,