Python and Go : Part III - Packaging Python Code

Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code Python and Go: Part IV - Using Python in Memory Introduction In the previous post we compiled Go code to a shared library and used it from t...

Automating a Linux in Windows dev setup

Last time I used Windows on my main development machine was sometime in the early 2000s. Over the years, I had several side Windows machines (usually because I needed Visual Studio) but I was never really serious about using a PC as my main dev machine. Things have changed a lot...

Different approaches to HTTP routing in Go

Compares routing techniques in Go, including five custom approaches and three using third-party routing libraries.

Go filesystems and file embedding

A presentation of the Go draft designs for a filesystem interface and a standard way to embed files in a Go binary (LWN.net).

Kubernetes pod shutdown lifecycle

I always forget the details about Kubernetes pod shutdown lifecycle is something when I need them, so this is my now made public notes on the subject. TL;DR When a pod is signaled to terminate (deleted, for example), what happens is: it enters in Terminating phase run all preSt...

4 practical principles of high-quality database integration tests in Go

Did you ever hear about a project where changes were tested on customers that you don’t like or countries that are not profitable? Or even worse – did you work on such project? It’s not enough to say that it’s just not fair and not professional. It’s...

Generics Part 01: Basic Syntax

Changes The draft is a living document which means these posts will need to change over time. This section documents when changes have taken place to this post. 21/08/20 : Moving forward with the generics design draft Series Index Generics Part 01: Basic Syntax Generics Part 02:...

Giving Rust Another Shot in 2020

Spanner's SQL support

Spanner is a distributed database Google initiated a while ago to build a highly available and highly consistent database for its own workloads. Spanner was initially built to be a key/value and was in a completely different shape than it is today and it had different goals. Sinc...

The sad, slow-motion death of Do Not Track

Talks about the valiant but almost-dead 10-year effort to prevent tracking with the Do Not Track header.