Leader Election inside Kubernetes

Ever needed a simple leader election mechanism on something that will run on a Kubernetes cluster? There’s an easy way to do that!

go test -v streaming output

The testing package is one of my favourite packages in the Go standard library, not just because of its low noise approach to unit testing, but, over the lifetime of Go, it has received a steady stream of quality of life improvements driven by real world usage. The most recent ex...

GopherCon 2020 COVID-19 Response

Many in the community are facing concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the newly discovered coronavirus [1]. We at Gopher Academy are following the status of COVID-19 carefully in preparation for the June conference.

Are large slices more expensive than smaller ones?

Programmers have a tendency to be superstitious. Particularly, when a programmer hears that copies are expensive, they start to see them everywhere, especially when they learn that, in Go, every assignment is a copy. Consider this code; x is three orders of magnitude larger than...

Kubernetes Jobs: shut down sidecar when main container finishes

Kubernetes Pod lifecycle does not cover everything just yet.

Don't try to sanitize input. Escape output.

Why you shouldn't try to sanitize user input; instead, escape output correctly.

Docker Images : Part II - Details Specific To Different Languages

Series Index Reducing Image Size Details Specific To Different Languages Going Farther To Reduce Image Size Introduction In the first part, we introduced multi-stage builds, static and dynamic linking, and briefly mentioned Alpine. In this second part, we are going to dive into s...

Freelancer by Choice

The Zen of Go

This article was derived from my GopherCon Israel 2020 presentation. It’s also quite long. If you’d prefer a shorter version, head over to the-zen-of-go.netlify.com. A recording of the presentation is available on YouTube. How should I write good code? Something that...

Easy private Helm repositories

Can we have a private Helm repository using GCS as backend? Yes we can!