The Myth of the Root Cause: How Complex Web Systems Fail (Scalyr)

The Power of Less Code

Debugging code generation in Go

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...

Keeping Go a human-first language

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...

A Random Blog Post

How to generate random numbers, and the difference between math/rand and crypto/rand.

Reducing Type Hierarchies

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 goes global

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

Watchub is a service that notifies you of people who followed/unfollowed you and starred/unstarred your repositories.

On Finding Root Causes

Swaggerize your APIs

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...