This was one of those projects that sat in the back of my mind for quite a while. It was destined to join the many others in my side project graveyard unless I had a good reason to finish it, like a date for a blog post.
The Saga of Go Dependency Management The Go community is on the cusp of some major shifts in the way we handle dependencies. These shifts are a long time coming, and involve the work and effort of dozens, if not hundreds, of people.
I know about Gophers, but what is a Pachyderm? Pachyderm is an open source framework, written in Go, for reproducible data processing. With Pachyderm, you can create language agnostic data pipelines where the data input and output of each stage of your pipeline are versioned cont...
Developers often tend to think about designing software in terms of using logical layers of abstractions. I have seen many Go projects with layers of abstractions that reflect grouping of all common things together such as types (model), handlers for all services (api or controll...
Go 1.8 is going to feature support for HTTP/2 server push. HTTP/2 has many features designed to make the Web faster. One of those features is the server push, the ability to send resources before the client asks for it. This feature enables websites to push assets like JavaScript...
Year’s end is coming closer. Time to clean up repositories and polishing up the toolset. All the well-known tools have been installed already–is there anything else to add to the toolbox?
database/sql has many new features to better enable writing and controlling queries. In short it adds support for: Cancelable queries Returning the SQL database types Returning multiple result sets Ping hitting the database server Named parameters Transaction isolation levels C...
In Go, for a long time, we didn’t have a convention to label the deprecated APIs. In the past years, there is new convention emerged to add deprecation notices to the docs. Today, standard library uses this specific format. As an example, Go 1.8 deprecates sql/driver.Execer...
Contributing to the Go project can seem overwhelming, especially at first. The official Contribution Guidelines document is rather lengthy, but after working through the initial Google CLA and Gerrit authentication process, it becomes much easier to contribute to the project.
Two of my favorite things to do are write Go code and make BBQ. This fall, I started a project that combined these passions into an interesting project.