Published in Dev Genius·Aug 16, 2022Go: Support Universal Binaries Using Shell ScriptIntroduction Have you ever wanted to have a Go program that ran on multiple platforms from a single binary? I’d always kinda hoped that Go would have “fat” binaries like the old Mac’s used to have when we converted from PowerPC to Intel that let you run on either platform. So…Golang5 min readGolang5 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Aug 4, 2022Go: Call option that can be used with multiple methodsAllow shared options in function and method calls, now with type safety! Shameless promo: For ways to improve your DevOps with Go, checkout my new book: Go For DevOps Background Years ago, the Go devs at Google came up with options to a function or method call that used function calls…Golang7 min readGolang7 min read
Nov 4, 2021Go: Using SSH and Domain Sockets For ServingHave you ever found the need to secure access to administrative traffic? This might be a system agent or a diagnostic endpoints for a service. Recently I had the need to secure traffic for code examples I’m using in a book. I wanted to secure the traffic to a bunch…Go2 min readGo2 min read
May 22, 2021gRPC vs REST — performance comparison1653Matthew LeungThis article does a good job of summing up speed differences. Here are a few notes:This article does a good job of summing up speed differences. Here are a few notes: gRPC is going to win here because of the JSON encode/decode speed: http://golangsre.com/2021/01/29/proto-vs-encoding-json/ The Cloud pubsub isn't a valid comparison. It is guaranteed that it is using gRPC or Stubby (so you are testing against the same platform). The difference is that you are sending to thousands of beefy machines instead of your test bed.1 min read1 min read
Mar 30, 2021WebGears: I’ll get your HTML/Javascript and your little dog Toto too!The original article at www.gophersre.com: here TLDR Web development stinks I don’t want to program in 5 languages to serve a webpage I wrote the webgear package so I can just program in Go with Web Components This package powers Golang Basics Preamble Hey, if you don’t want to listen to my…Golang5 min readGolang5 min read
Feb 17, 2021Flatbuffers in Go Fall FlatNote: Originally published at gophersre.com (easier to read there) Flatbuffers are a Google message format in the same vein as Protocol Buffers or JSON. They were designed for game programmers in C++ who want to avoid heap allocations at all costs. It isn’t a new tech, but I started seeing…Golang8 min readGolang8 min read
Jul 5, 2018To Hell With Testing and DocumentationWhat the worst projects say Have you heard any of these: What’s a test? I don’t have the time to write a test! We have enough internal knowledge, we don’t need to document. I’d rather be working on code, not documenting! When I talk to people about their projects or am deciding on which…Software Development8 min readSoftware Development8 min read
Apr 15, 2018Using No-Op Objects For Cleaner CodeSooner or later every Go programmer will want to extract an object from another object such as Context or utilize an object that can be set to nil throughout the call stack. However, this can lead to ugly code that looks like: func someFunc(obj *MyObj) { if obj != …Golang3 min readGolang3 min read
Sep 9, 2017Why I moved from Python to Go (Part II)Note: This is a continuation of this article Type safety and the compiler to the rescue One of the first things we noticed using Go was that once a program compiled, it tended to work. This was not the experience that we had in Python. Small programs usually took a lot of runs before we got the bugs…Programming9 min readProgramming9 min read
Sep 9, 2017Why I moved from Python to Go (Part I)Before we begin This article will be about why I switched from Python to Go. This is from my experiences doing development in both over many years. Like many articles of this type, some people might feel that their choices are being offended. That’s really not the spirit of this article. …Programming9 min readProgramming9 min read
