In a lot of ways, I owe my professional career to music. If it wasn’t for music, I wouldn’t have learned about samplers, sequencers, MIDI and the crazy world of synthesizers. Those machines led me to computers and computer music which led me to both sound engineering...
Go allows authors to write functions in assembly if required. This is called a stub or forward declaration. package asm // Add returns the sum of a and b. func Add(a int64, b int64) int64 Here we’re declaring Add, a function which takes two int64‘s and returns their s...
If you are running HTTP server and want to rate limit requests to the endpoints, you can use well-maintained tools such as github.com/didip/tollbooth. But if you’re building something very simple, it’s not that hard to implement it on your own.
For the past few months I've been running a survey which asks people what they're finding difficult about learning Go. And something that keeps coming up in the responses is the concept of interfaces. I get that. Go was the first language I ever used that had interfaces, and I...
I wanted to set up a fault tolerant nats-streaming-server, but couldn’t find a “quick” guide on how to do it - so here we are. I would also recommend you to read a previous post I wrote about how to do it using the clustering method. Why not Clustering Clusteri...
Ardan Labs (a leader in building Go enterprise software) is excited to announce that we have partnered with Light Code Labs and Matt Holt to bring Caddy into the Ardan Labs family of products and services. Caddy is a lightweight ingress service written in Go that provides automat...
Prelude This is the third post in a three part series that will provide an understanding of the mechanics and semantics behind the garbage collector in Go. This post focuses on how the GC paces itself. Index of the three part series: Garbage Collection In Go : Part I - Semantics...
In the previous article, I explained what data we needed to generate waveforms and showed how to use a BBC Free Open Source Software to generate that data. In this article, I will show how to draw a waveform using Google’s Flutter UI toolkit for mobile, desktop and web. Her...