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Alex Tan
Alex Tan
Oct 6 · 2 min read

Microservice Health Endpoint

The Health Endpoint 👨‍⚕️

Consider the following scenarios:

  • You are working on an integration of an API, and you are given an API endpoint, https://api.abc.com/. Now, they did not provide sufficient information…
Alex Tan
Alex Tan
Aug 29, 2018 · 1 min read

Docker and Go 1.11 modules

This is a simple guide on how to dockerize a golang binary in go1.11 with the vendor directories. By default go command will completely ignore vendor directories. But enabling the build using the vendor directory would speed up build a lot, especially when running inside Docker, as…

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Alex Tan
Alex Tan
Aug 23, 2018 · 2 min read

Circuit Breaker in Microservices

I have seen a lot of presentation on circuit-breakers - on how successful it was when Company X or…

Alex Tan
Alex Tan
Apr 11, 2018 · 2 min read

gRPC Load Balancing with Nginx

Nginx recent release finally has native support for gRPC. It is a nice addition to existing tools such as…

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Alex Tan
Alex Tan
Sep 9, 2017 · 2 min read

10 things I learnt about Go

1. There’s no round function for numbers

If you want to round numbers in go, you have to implement it yourself, that is, until go 1.10 is released.