The first several months of any new job are critical for establishing credibility, building relationships, and setting yourself up for success at a new company. I’ve held a variety of software engineering jobs, both in a contracting…

I’ve come across several cases lately where I need to implement some kind of filtering on a slice of records based on business logic requirements. At a first pass, the simplest solution may be to do filtering in-line, looping through your set of…

Spotify exposes a robust API that can be used to manage your (or someone elses) music library and do all sorts of fun things with it. Once OAuth 2 authentication is set up and ready to go, an application can continually interact with the…

This is a quick discussion of how to set up a local development environment for a Go API running inside of a Docker container with hot reloading. I’ve found this to be an effective way to develop locally. The full source code can be found on GitHub.

Sun Jul 15, 2018

This post assumes a base level of knowledge in AWS Lambda functions written in Go. The Official Documentation is a great place to start if you are unfamiliar with the basics of Lambda functions written in Go.