Update: https://pretired.dazwilkin.com I (p)retired from Google last week. The plan is to continue to do more of the same mostly using Golang (though I’m learning Rust), mostly using Kubernetes (though Docker Compose is better for local development) and mostly using Google Cloud Platform (though I’ve a soft spot for DigitalOcean and will continue to use that too). I’m writing a personality for Google Trillian, plan to write at least one more, and have several ideas for this compelling platform.

Last one! :-) We’ll now combine this week’s adventures with Go Modules, immutable package repos and Cloud Build into a more realistic Golang project, hosted on GitHub, that (a) regenerates the gRPC bindings; (b) builds multiple Golang binaries; and c) generates container images in Google Container Registry (GCR) for the…

Yesterday, I explored some ways to take advantage of an immutable Golang package store using Docker and Cloud Build. It seems as though there may be a way to take advantage of this immutability using deconstructed multi-stage builds. Multi-Stage Builds This is my boilerplate for Golang multi-stage builds and Google’s distroless FROM…

Yesterday, I wrote a summary of my recent switch to Go Modules. In the conclusion, I wrote that I’m moving to a single ${GOPATH} across my projects. One of the advantages of Modules is that, a package version should be immutable. …

Although I am familiar (and a fan of) the old ${GOPATH} way, to remain current and because of the many benefits, I’ve begun to use Go Modules. Like others, I found the switch to be confusing. So… Before Modules WORKDIR=[[PATH-TO-YOUR-WORKING-DIRECTORY]] mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}/go export GOPATH=${WORKDIR}/go export PATH=${GOPATH}/bin:${PATH} mkdir -p {${WORKDIR}/go/src/foo, ${WORKDIR}/go/src/foo/bar} Then…

The Missing Manuals series — Last week I documented what I hope is the simplest possible Trillian personality. Yesterday, I documented adding an inclusion proof. Earlier today, I documented building a gRPC-based client and server for the personality. Here is a small addition that adds metrics (stats) and traces. OpenCensus Exporter With the addition of a straightforward…

The Missing Manual series — Last week I documented what I hope is the simplest possible Trillian personality. Yesterday, I documented adding an inclusion proof. Today we’ll split the main.go into a client and a server and reconnect them using gRPC. …

The Missing Manuals series — Last week I documented what I hope is the simplest possible Trillian personality. This is an interim post as I realized I’d missed some important functionality in my sample, an inclusion proof: effectively incontrovertible evidence that some specified data is part of the transparent log. Setup You’ll need the Database and…

Weekend Hacking — Prometheus is one of the technologies that I find elegant. Reading on its extensive list of integrations on Friday afternoon while walking my dog, I was inspired to write an Exporter for Particle. The following documents some weekend hacking. …