Ever since Go caught significant attention outside of Google, dependency management has been a hot topic.

Initially, there was no dependency management beyond go get, which loads source files off origin/master to your system-wide $GOPATH…

Recently, I built a lightweight task scheduler on top of AWS ECS in Go. The application schedules batch jobs with custom arguments and schedules as single containers via AWS ECS, an orchestrator built on top of EC2 and Docker. One of the key requirements of the…

If you’re really into something, you’re bound to get asked

Why do you love X?

When I joined Segment back in January, I got a rundown of our benefits — including a free membership at the next door gym. In the past, I hadn’t really given going to the gym much thought, and call me silly, but I had always naively thought

I have lots of fun geeking…

Golang has a defer keyword, which “defers” the execution of a function until the surrounding function returns. Multiple defers are stacked last-in first-out so that the most recently deferred function is run first.