Introduction I am asked quite a bit about when and when not to use pointers in Go. The problem most people have, is that they try to make this decision based on what they think the performance tradeoff will be. Hence the problem, don’t make coding decisions based on unfounded t...
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love versionless package management If you spend any time on the golang-nuts mailing list you’ll learn that the only thing more contentious than generics is package management.
I will start this by quoting the bashstyle’s readme: Bash is like the JavaScript of systems programming. Although in some cases it’s better to use a systems language like C or Go, Bash is actually an ideal systems language for many smaller POSIX-oriented or...
There are definitely problems with using a json file as a database, but sometimes the simplicity of no extra dependencies makes it an attractive option.
Every once in a while I see somewhere a wrong import to the old, deprecated junit.framework instead of org.junit. I particularly believe they should remove this package and put it in a junit-compat jar or something… but, while they don’t do that, we can avoid those o...
In part one, I talked about some interesting probabilistic data structures.. In part two, I will discuss a more common approximate data structure: Bloom filters and their variations.
A little over 2 and a half years ago I started playing with that new language called Go. Coming mostly from .NET and node.js, I was at first intrigued by its concurrency features and its lack of object inheritance, and impressed by the quality of the team behind it.
Motivation Some time ago, I decided I wanted to solve my own storage needs better, and I realized that I can’t just rely on synchronizing files.
Deploying with “git push” the Docker Way Many people have asked me how we set up the GopherAcademy blog to automatically deploy when we push a commit.