The state of the AWK

Surveys the AWK landscape, looks at new features in GNU Awk, and discusses why AWK is still relevant in 2020 (LWN.net).

Spanner's high availability writes

Spanner is a relational database with 99.999% availability which is roughly 5 mins a year. Spanner is a distributed system and can span multiple machines, multiple datacenters (and even geographical regions when configured). It splits the records automatically among its replicas...

A complete Terraform setup of a serverless application on Google Cloud Run and Firebase

In the previous post, Robert introduced Wild Workouts, our example serverless application. Every week or two, we will release new articles related to this project, focusing on creating business-oriented applications in Go. In this post, I continue where Robert left off and descri...

Fatih’s question

A few days ago Fatih posted this question on twitter. I’m going to attempt to give my answer, however to do that I need to apply some simplifications as my previous attempts to answer it involved a lot of phrases like a pointer to a pointer, and other unhelpful waffling. Hopefu...

Dgraph, GraphQL, Schemas, and CRUD

Introduction In most of the reviews for this post, I was asked why choose a graph database over something else? This is a hard question to answer since my experience right now is limited on the graph database side. My guess is you’re wondering the same thing, so this is my best...

Dgraph, GraphQL, Schemas, and CRUD

Introduction In most of the reviews for this post, I was asked why choose a graph database over something else? This is a hard question to answer since my experience right now is limited on the graph database side. My guess is you’re wondering the same thing, so this is my best...

What's coming in Go 1.15

An overview of what's coming in the Go 1.15 final release in August 2020 (LWN.net).

Building a serverless application with Go, Google Cloud Run and Firebase

Welcome to the first article from the series covering how to build business-oriented applications in Go! In this series, we want to show you how to build applications that are easy to develop, maintain, and fun to work with in the long term. The idea of this series is to not foc...

Building a TCP Chat in Go

Ensmallening Go binaries by prohibiting comparisons

Conventional wisdom dictates that the larger the number of types declared in a Go program, the larger the resulting binary. Intuitively this makes sense, after all, what’s the point in defining a bunch of types if you’re not going to write code that operates on them....