Testing in Go: philosophy and tools
Describes the minimalist philosophy of testing in Go and the built-in testing tools (LWN.net).
Robust gRPC communication on Google Cloud Run (but not only!)
Welcome in the third article form the series covering how to build business-oriented applications in Go! In this series, we want to show you how to build applications that are easy to develop, maintain, and fun to work in the long term. In this week’s article I will describ...
Diamond interface composition in Go 1.14
Per the overlapping interfaces proposal, Go 1.14 now permits embedding of interfaces with overlapping method sets. This is a brief post explain what this change means: Let’s start with the definition of the three key interfaces from the io package; io.Reader, io.Writer, an...
The state of the AWK
Surveys the AWK landscape, looks at new features in GNU Awk, and discusses why AWK is still relevant in 2020 (LWN.net).
Spanner's high availability writes
Spanner is a relational database with 99.999% availability which is roughly 5 mins a year. Spanner is a distributed system and can span multiple machines, multiple datacenters (and even geographical regions when configured). It splits the records automatically among its replicas...
A complete Terraform setup of a serverless application on Google Cloud Run and Firebase
In the previous post, Robert introduced Wild Workouts, our example serverless application. Every week or two, we will release new articles related to this project, focusing on creating business-oriented applications in Go. In this post, I continue where Robert left off and descri...
Fatih’s question
A few days ago Fatih posted this question on twitter. I’m going to attempt to give my answer, however to do that I need to apply some simplifications as my previous attempts to answer it involved a lot of phrases like a pointer to a pointer, and other unhelpful waffling. Hopefu...
Dgraph, GraphQL, Schemas, and CRUD
Introduction In most of the reviews for this post, I was asked why choose a graph database over something else? This is a hard question to answer since my experience right now is limited on the graph database side. My guess is you’re wondering the same thing, so this is my best...
Dgraph, GraphQL, Schemas, and CRUD
Introduction In most of the reviews for this post, I was asked why choose a graph database over something else? This is a hard question to answer since my experience right now is limited on the graph database side. My guess is you’re wondering the same thing, so this is my best...
What's coming in Go 1.15
An overview of what's coming in the Go 1.15 final release in August 2020 (LWN.net).