Go and the Secure Shell protocol
What is the Secure Shell protocol? Many of us use ssh(1) everyday to administer servers around the world. The Secure Shell protocol, however, allows us to do much more than open secure shells.
Stack Traces In Go
Introduction Having some basic skills in debugging Go programs can save any programmer a good amount of time trying to identify problems. I believe in logging as much information as you can, but sometimes a panic occurs and what you logged is not enough. Understanding the informa...
Jekyll with Sass
I followed @mdo recent article “Using Sass with Jekyll”, and wanted to point out the results. I’m using some version of Lanyon with some custom stuff. So, I had 4 CSS files: 4 CSS files Summing it up, ~22K. It’s not a lot, but, thinking abo...
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.