I have recently found myself writing more and more Rust. I figured it might benefit other gophers if I shared my experiences, as I suspect many will have the same questions I had. So let’s get started. Expression based language This means that the last expression is the return value of a function…

In the following article, I’d like to point out a few problems with CI/CD and propose an alternative. Now the term and methodology of CI/CD is far more nuanced. But for the purposes of this article, this is what I mean when I refer to CI/CD. The above has many…

In my previous article, I mentioned and explained why we created REST API. In this one, I’d like to get into more detail and elaborate on how. Specifically on how to actually design what the resources look like. Let’s first examine what properties make rock an excellent REST resource. Rock…

As a senior dev at G Adventures, I’ve had the great opportunity to work on the REST API here. This post is the first of many detailing how we got to where we are. Our core business at G Adventures is small group travel, a social enterprise that strives to…

Asyncio allows you to write high performance network applications in Python. It’s been a breath of fresh air in reducing complexity and resource abuse common in sync applications. However bugs happen — and they happen to asyncio apps too. Sailing into the last two weeks of 2017 that I fully…

I’d heard of functional programming of course; even tried it in a few languages. I’ve adopted many features such as map, curry, list comprehensions, but when I need to get stuff done — something that someone actually pays me to deliver — I would fall back to my imperative ways. …

As a senior Go programmer at my workplace, I was recently tasked with producing some type of guidelines that others could follow. I realized I am not familiar with any specific guidelines. Why? Because Go tooling is so great that machine does all of that for me. Below I’ll talk…

Yes this is a rant. Sometimes I come across criticism of Go’s error handling. This often gives me a pause mainly because that’s one criticism I don’t get at all. Go doesn’t have exceptions First of, just the name Exception is a joke. Why? Well here is the thing. Exceptions are just not that exceptional. If…