The Maintainers of OSS @ Equinix

A conversation about maintaining OSS and other software-related topics.

Practical Uses Of Blockchain Technology

Introduction A blockchain is an integrated solution of different computer science problems in the form of a single, append-only, publicly available, transparent, and cryptographically auditable database that runs in a distributed and decentralized environment. I’ve heard many t...

My tmux workflow

I wanted to share a quick thing that made my life easier on tmux lately, but before we dig into that, I feel like I need to explain how I usually work.

Only testing your public API in a Go package

If you're writing a library or piece of code in Go that you want to be sure works as expected when a consumer of the code uses it, you'll likely want to write some black box tests for it. These exercise only the public interface of the code, and ensure that valid use-cases for ex...

Open Source Brasil Maintainers Event @ GitHub

A conversation about maintaining OSS — in Portuguese.

Important Conference Announcement

You may have noticed that the team at Gopher Academy has been unusually quiet lately. In April, we contacted the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort to discuss the cancellation of our conference at their property.

Shell scripts should be written to be clear first

Flow: A delightfully tiny but powerful HTTP router for Go

Last year I wrote a new HTTP router for Go called Flow. I've been using it in production on this site and in a couple of other projects since, and I'm pretty happy with how it's working out so decided to share it a bit more widely. My aim with Flow was to bring together my favo...

Increasing Cohesion in Go with Generic Decorators

Cohesion is part of the low coupling, high cohesion principle that’s supposed to keep your code maintainable. While low coupling means few dependencies, high cohesion roughly translates to single responsibility. Highly cohesive code (a module or a function) is focused on a...

Introducing a library for OpenAPI contract testing with Go's `net/http` package

I've recently been working on building a Go API, which is driven through an OpenAPI specification, and has almost all of the code generated through the awesome oapi-codegen. One of the common concerns of using OpenAPI, or really any documentation, that is always difficult is keep...