Last week, I was at dotGo. I gave a very short lightning talk about inspection of code generation with the tools already available in the toolchain. This post goes through the talk for those who didn’t have the privilege to be at the conference. Slides are also available at...
Disclaimer: I forked my opinions on this one from a barely readable Twitter thread and wanted to write it down how I feel about keeping the language internals away from the users, especially from the newcomers. This is not a skill-level concern, it is a core goal of Go to provide...
How to generate random numbers, and the difference between math/rand and crypto/rand.
Introduction I see a lot of developers coming to Go from object oriented programming languages such as C# and Java. Because these developers have been trained to use type hierarchies, it makes sense for them to use this same pattern in Go. However, there are aspects of Go that do...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...