Microservices with go-kit. Part 2
This is a text version of the “packagemain #13: Microservices with go-kit.
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Creating the Art for Gopher Kart
In the months leading up to GopherCon, my wife Jamilet and I had come up with the idea of creating a “small” browser-based game for the convention using the racing theme. Neither of us had ever worked on a game before and we had no idea what was involved. However, we knew we...
Deploying Facebox to AWS ECS
Currently I am building a product on top of face recognition functionality and I am using Facebox with go-sdk as it’s the easiest way to add face recognition features to your project.
Table driven tests in Go
In practice-go we often use table driven testing to be able to test all function scenarios. For example the FindAnagrams() function returns us a list of anagrams found in the dictionary for given input. To be able to test this function properly we need to test multiple cases, li...
Upgrading ElasticSearch 2 to 5: S3 snapshot/restore strategy
Migrating an ElasticSearch cluster from version 2 to 5 can be challenging, even more if it is a big cluster. In this post we will explore one of the strategies that can be used to do such migration, setting a up a playground environment in which we can learn the migration proced...
GoReleaser: lessons learned so far
I’ve started GoReleaser almost 2 years ago. This is a summary of (some) things I’ve learned down the road. Tip This is a blog post based on a talk I gave at Gophercon Brasil 2018 at 2018-09-29. The slides are at the en...
Microservices with go-kit. Part 1
This is a text version of the “packagemain #12: Microservices with go-kit.
gRPC Client Authentication
Introduction Best practices for performing client authentication with gRPC is a question that comes up again and again, so I thought I’d dive into a few different methods for performing authentication, using the tools provided by the Go gRPC packages. Today we’ll expl...
Using gRPC with JSON
Introduction It’s often said that gRPC is tied to the Google Protocol Buffers payload format, but this is not strictly true. While the default format for gRPC payloads is Protobuf, the gRPC-Go implementation exposes a Codec interface which allows arbitrary payload encoding....