Or: how to ship your app in a <20Mb container. Well, as you may know, there is a good amount of people now building microservices in Go and deploying them as Docker containers. I do not yet have a lot of experience with Go and Docker, but I’ll try to share what I learned...
After years of using Integrated Development Environments (IDE) during my Windows progamming days, such as Visual Basic IDE, Borland Delphi IDE, Visual C++ and more recent Visual Studio, I have ditched all of those when I switched to Mac OS X about 10 years ago. My initial transi...
We do a lot of file hash calculations at work, where we commonly go through millions of files a day using a diverse number of hashing algorithms. The standard Go library is amazing, and it has many structures and methods to do all that kind of stuff. Sometimes you just have to lo...
Here at Malwarebytes we are experiencing phenomenal growth, and since I have joined the company over 1 year ago in the Silicon Valley, one my main responsibilities has been to architect and develop several systems to power a fast-growing security company and all the needed infras...
For years I have been thinking about creating a spot where I can post articles about programming and technology in general. But every attempt to do so have result in complete failure, mostly due to the hassle of setting up maintaining a blog that can be easily updated. I’ve...
There are a lot of Java API’s and Frameworks which rely in static methods and the sort. Arguably, this is a bad OOP practice, but lets not enter this particular subject just yet. For example, it is pretty common to write unit tests like this: package blah; import static or...
go build generates a binary for the platform you run it in. So, if I build antibody in a Linux machine - which uses Mach-O, it will not work in OS X - which uses ELF. I wanted to distribute antibody at least for Linux and OS X, so I went out searching for how to do this in a not...
Registrations for the GopherCon’s Hack Day talks closed on the 20th of July, here are the results. Forward After the popularity of the lightning talk sessions last year, and the huge interest the call for papers received, we expected very high demand for lightning talk slot...
With less than a month til GopherCon 2015 we’ve been hard at work on plans for the Friday 10th Hack Day. The previous year’s unofficial Friday Hack Day was so popular we decided this year to integrate it into the conference proper.
This is the first in a series of tutorials about persisting data in Go web applications. In this post we'll be looking at SQL databases. I'll explain the basics of the database/sql package, walk through building a working application, and explore a couple of options for...