I recently fall into a trap using Traefik as the ingress controller in one cluster. I decided to write about it with hopes it maybe help someone else. Context We got the architecture like this: Cloudflare -> Traefik LoadBalancer -> Traefik Pods -> App Pods Traefik was r...
This week, Chang Xu and I are running our very first Braintrust LA event. While the event is private and we won’t talk about who’s presenting and who’s attending, I wanted to share with you a note we wrote to the attendees. The idea of organizing Braintrust LA c...
Sometimes people ask me what my setup looks like for remote work. I decided to try and keep a more-or-less updated list of the hardware and software I’m using. People call usually call such pages “my /uses page”. So, here’s mine. Hope you’ll find it...
Security, Privacy and Trust will be major themes in 2020. Looking at this arm report, 30% of surveyed folks were more concerned in 2019 over data privacy and security than they were in 2018. Add the elections, legal actions against Google & Facebook, Apple and others pushing...
GoReleaser’s journey begins in December 21, 2016: the day I made its very first commit. It has been a long road since then. I didn’t have big aspirations for it. Just wanted to reliably automate my workflow in another project, so, the first version was pretty hacky,...
Go’s defer keyword allows us to schedule a function to run before a function returns. Multiple functions can be deferred from a function. defer is often used to cleanup resources, finish function-scoped tasks, and similar. Deferring functions are great for maintability. By...
Chances are you should instead be investing in data engineering so you can take a deep look at your properly labeled and processed data instead of throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Machine Learning (ML). ML isn’t magical, you need a lot of clean, labeled data. Th...
Looking back at the last 10 years, two specific trends are very clear to me, here they are highlighted by Fred Wilson: “The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the m...
Huh, what’s a Vugu? Vugu is a Go library that makes it easy to write HTML markup and Go code which is compiled and run in the browser using WebAssembly.
As programmers we use libraries a lot. But library design is hard. In this article, I will walk through some considerations in designing a library.