In the previous post I showed how to keep all the scripts used in the CI in one repository. Let’s see what more advanced scripts you could put in there. This time I’d like to show how to add automatic versioning to your pipeline. You will also see how to push commits...
Gpython is a Python 3.4 interpreter written in Go. This is the story of how it came to be, how it works and where it is going.
I have many different interests, including baking, open-source software, and more recently, systems monitoring and learning Go. As a way for me to expand my practical knowledge on each item, I devised a fun little project that leverages sensors, Raspberry Pis, and Prometheus to i...
Thanks to Andreas Auernhammer, author of the golang.org/x/crypto/argon2 package, for checking over this post before publication. If you're planning to store user passwords it's good practice (essential really) to hash them using a computationally expensive key-derivation functi...
TL;DR In this article I’ll share my experience building an interactive 3D WebGL-based application for peer-to-peer messaging protocol simulation without writing any single line in JS.
This article is about an experiment at Africa’s Talking on using Slack to manage our deployment process. Like many companies, we use Kubernetes to manage our deployments, and Slack for internal communications.
We usually use the fmt package without giving it much thought. A fmt.Printf here, a fmt.Sprintf there and on we go. However, if you’ll take a closer look, you’ll be able to get much more out of it.
For a long time, Javascript was the lingua franca amongst web developers. If you wanted to write a stable, mature web app, writing in javascript was pretty much the only way to go.
As you may know Go 1.11 includes opt-in feature for versioned modules.
The io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces appear in practically all Go programs, and represent the fundamental building blocks for dealing with streams of data. An important feature of Go is that the abstractions around objects such as sockets, files, or in-memory buffers are all ex...