The world's first Go distributed hackathon.
Registration is now open for the Gopher Gala - the world’s first Go distributed hackathon. You may have heard of the Rails Rumble, Node Knockout, or Django Dash.
Cron as a file system
9p I read The Styx Architecture for Distributed Systems over a decade ago. The central idea of the paper is that “representing a computing resource as a form of file system, [makes] many of the difficulties of making that resource available across the network disappear&rdqu...
The Other Side of Go: Programming Pictures, the Read, Parse, Draw Pattern
The other side of Go: Programming Pictures, the Read, Parse, Draw Pattern Go has proven to be extremely versatile and well suited to back-end tasks, but sometimes you need a picture, and I’ve found that Go works well for generating visuals as well.
Type safe templating with ego
Go has seen many converts from scripting languages such as Ruby and Python. These newcomers love the type safety, the language simplicity, and the static binaries that Go offers.
Viper: Configuration with Fangs
One of the hardest things to get right when building command line or server applications is user configuration. One look at the many different INI formats or various approaches used in /etc demonstrates that there really isn’t a good and standard approach.
Testing Microservices in Go
This post is about testing microservices and why they should be tested differently from many types of software. Microservices are by their very nature simple and encapsulated behind their api.
Managing Dependencies
Packages, dependencies, versions. This post will explore two tools and how I’ve been using them. Godep as the consumer of third-party packages, and gopkg.in as a library author.
Cobra: A Modern & Refined CLI Commander
Go is the perfect language to develop command line applications. Go has a few advantages that really set it apart from other languages: Single binary Very fast execution time, no interpreter needed Go is awesome!
Simple backoff
Or, taming connection state and thundering herds. There comes a time in the life of many programs when you need to maintain a persistent connection to a server.
Atlas: Building with Rails and Go Microservices
Atlas is a recently announced service by HashiCorp that provides a single platform to take an application from development through to production. The complexity of the problem makes Atlas a sophisticated web service that is composed of many moving pieces.