Hugo goes global

Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo 0.17 is nearly twice as fast as Hugo 0.16 and adds full support for multilingual websites with i18n support throughout all of Hugo.

Watchub

Watchub is a service that notifies you of people who followed/unfollowed you and starred/unstarred your repositories. Watchub home page. It runs every day and sends you an email if something changed. The first commit was about 1 month ago, and I first deployed it t...

On Finding Root Causes

Swaggerize your APIs

Swagger UI is a great tool and a must have for any respectable API project. It has an intuitive design, all endpoints can be tested from the interface. For example, let’s have a look at Kubernetes API, where endpoints are grouped by version, and everything is accessible in...

Fixing Alerts

As a DevOps/SRE, I spent a reasonable amount of time dealing with metrics and alerts. Usually, companies start with none or few monitoring. One day, they realize they need metrics, alerts, and all the gang. Sure, this will help them fix problems and outages faster, so, they start...

How to make people love your product

I have seen a lot of posts like this subject, but almost all of them were about stuff you should do and almost none of them reflected how I truly feel, how I want a product to be so I can “love” it. If I would make a list, it would look more or less like this: 1. No b...

Go tooling essentials

New to the Go tools? Or do you want to expand your knowledge? This article is about the flags for the Go tools everyone should know. Disclaimer: This article might be slightly biased. This is a collection of flags I personally use and flags people around me having trouble finding...

Memory leaks with mux.Router in Go

Today we found that our web server written in Go has memory leaks and consume around 300M of memory, which is really a lot for our app. After restart it’s back to ~10M but each hour increased by few more. Golang has nice built-in tools to debug and find leaks.

Writing Your First Postmortem

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC.