(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Welcome to my guide to writing microservices in Golang. This will be a multi-part series, consisting of 10 core articles, covering everything from frameworks, to CI tools, to databases. The core technologies used throughout this series are: Golang Kubernetes Github Actions gRPC Micro (microservice framework for Go) MongoDB Postgres Docker Google [...]
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 and even brokering. As mentioned in previous posts, go-micro is a pluggable framework, and it interfaces lots of different commonly used technologies. [...]
UPDATED June 7th 2020 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 post, we're going to look at docker-compose, and how we can run our services together locally a little [...]
UPDATED: 11th April 2019 UPDATED: 12th January 2020 UPDATED: 6th June 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 of protobuf and gRPC as the underlying transport protocol. Why? Because it took me a long time to [...]
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 others. The concept of 'a couple of drinks' was completely alien to me. I'm black or white, all or nothing. I was [...]
Okay, so this is probably true of all professions or skills. But one thing that's struck me over the past few years, as a programmer. The more I know about programming, and software engineering, the less sure of myself I've become. I remember my first job as a back-end engineer, I started out as a [...]
TL;DR Dont' be a dick. I have fairly strong views on many subjects. So, typically, as someone who uses the internet, I end up, often against my will, being dragged into debate, after debate, after debate. I enjoy proper debates, they challenge what I know, not just about other peoples positions and views, but [...]
One of my criticisms in the past when it comes to Javascript, is that it can get really messy, really quickly. That's before ES6 came along. ES6 has loads of great features, but I think the best part about ES6 is the brevity and clarity of its syntax. I'm going to outline a few 'before [...]
I've been working on a pretty large API recently, lots of routes, services, handlers etc. The first thing I noticed is my main.go file started to become excuciatingly bloated with 'bootstrapping' code. In order to avoid setting services as globals, I was (rightly) using structs to share services around handlers. Take this example: main. [...]
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I've spent a lot of time and effort assessing various productivity workflows. From Trello, to pen and paper, to custom tooling [...]
A quick write-up on my findings on the Uber FX library. The good, and the not so good. [...]
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! [...]