Did you ever hear about a project where changes were tested on customers you don’t like or countries that aren’t profitable? Or even worse: did you work on such a project? It’s not enough to say that it’s unfair and unprofessional. It’s also hard to...
Changes The draft is a living document which means these posts will need to change over time. This section documents when changes have taken place to this post. 21/08/20 : Moving forward with the generics design draft Series Index Generics Part 01: Basic Syntax Generics Part 02:...
Spanner is a distributed database Google initiated a while ago to build a highly available and highly consistent database for its own workloads. Spanner was initially built to be a key/value and was in a completely different shape than it is today and it had different goals. Sinc...
Talks about the valiant but almost-dead 10-year effort to prevent tracking with the Do Not Track header.
I’ve seen a lot of complicated code in my life. Pretty often, the reason for that complexity was application logic coupled with database logic. Keeping the logic of your application together with your database logic makes your application much more complex, harder to test,...
An overview of the new features in Lua 5.4 (LWN.net).
We’re approaching the first anniversary of when I stepped down from my operating role at Splice. The company kept on growing rapidly and be impactful, I am very proud of what the team is doing to change things from within the music industry. I had a blast during my time off...
#GopherCon is now #GoVirCon! With increasing cases of coronavirus in the US, travel bans and restrictions holding strong likely through the end of the year, and Gopher Academy’s increasing concern regarding the health and well-being of our community members, at the end of J...
An overview of Hugo, a flexible static website generator written in Go and optimized for speed (LWN.net).