Benchmarking gRPC+Protobuf vs HTTP+JSON in Go

Simplest possible solution for communication between services is to use JSON over HTTP. Though JSON has many obvious advantages - it’s human readable, well understood, and typically performs well - it also has its issues. In the case of internal services the structured formats...

Building REST Server with Elixir

I always wanted to try Elixir because of it’s nice Erlang ecosystem and because it’s similar to Go in a lot of points.

Handle HTTP Request Errors in Go

In this short post I want to discuss handling HTTP request errors in Go.

Antifragility 101

Client side streaming in gRPC-Web

In a previous post I introduced my open source project to bring GopherJS bindings to Improbable’s gRPC-Web client. I’m happy to say that the initial goal of supporting all features of the gRPC-Web client has been completed. I was initially going to leave it at that an...

Context cancellation acknowledgement

A Repository Graveyard

This past weekend I decided I need to clean up my GitHub profile. In this post I’ll write about why I cleaned everything up and also how I did, as well as some initial results.

Impermanence: The Single Root Cause

o means open. Simple CLI tool to open repository in browser.

Here is my small bash function! When you run it from the terminal it opens the GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab page in your browser for the git repository you are currently in.

A Primer on Automating Chaos (Gremlin)