Introduction One day I was talking to Damian Gryski in Slack about some performance improvements he made to his go-metro package. When I first looked at the changes I was completely confused how this could have any effect on the performance of the code. I felt the code was more r...
Introduction Last year I wrote a post about automating deployment of your application, all the way from git push to redeploying your application in your environment. It relied on the free version of Docker Cloud, which allowed the use of a single node for free. Of course, the ide...
Everything in life eventually comes to an end, including life itself. This is not that kind of post, though. After 4 years and a lot of work, I’m leaving ContaAzul. I have met and work with awesome people there, and I can say with 100% confidence that I have never learned...
Earlier this year AWS announced that their Lambda service would now be providing first-class support for the Go language, which is a great step forward for any gophers (like myself) who fancy experimenting with serverless technology. So in this post I'm going to talk through how...
When first announced GoReleaser roughly 1 year ago, on January 2017, I never thought it would be somewhat famous. I was just solving a problem I had like I always do. It turns out more people had the same problem, and the feedback has been awesome! I’m also happy to announ...
Over the years I read several articles on how to be effective, and how the 10x engineer thing is or is not a lie and all that. I think this “being effective” varies a lot from one to another, so it is probably really hard to be 100% accurate with anything. That being...
Google Home This is a text version of this video: packagemain #10: Building Google Home Action in Go. Google Home is a voice Assistant, similar to Amazon Alexa, but working with Google services. It has a lot of built-in integrations, but what is interesting for us developes is t...