golang My thoughts on Uber FX A quick write-up on my findings on the Uber FX library. The good, and the not so good.
startups The importance in picking a lane Decision paralysis is a real thing, sometimes it's a sign you have a lot of good options laid out a head of you. But beware!
golang How I'm writing Serverless Services in Golang these days Introduction I’ve been programming with Go for almost 5 years now, and it’s been almost as long since I first created a Lambda function. This article will cover what I’ve
javascript How I'm writing Nodejs Serverless services these days Some thoughts and suggestions when creating Serverless microservices in Nodejs
javascript How clean-architecture solved so many of our Serverless problems Learnings of how clean architecture still applies to the brave new Serverless world.
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.
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 8 - Kubernetes and Container Engine Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the previous post we looked at creating a container engine cluster with Terraform. In this post, we'll look at deploying containers into
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
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 6 - Web Clients Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the previous post we looked at some of the various approaches to event-driven architecture in go-micro and in go in general. This
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 5 - Event brokering with Go Micro Image credit: Jasper Van Der Meij In the previous part in this series, we touched upon user authentication and JWT. In this episode, we'll take a quick look at the go-micro's broker functionality
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 4 - Authentication with JWT Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. In the previous part in this series, we looked at creating a user service and started storing some users. Now we need to
golang Microservices in Golang - part 3 - docker-compose and datastores CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED 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
go Microservices in Golang - part 2 - Docker and go-micro UPDATED: 11th April 2019 UPDATED: 12th January 2020 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
golang Microservices in Golang - Part 1 UPDATED: 11th April 2019 UPDATED: 12th January 2020 用中文阅读. Sponsor me on Patreon to support more content like this. Introduction This is a ten part series on writing microservices in Golang. Making use
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