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The Zen of Go

This article was derived from my GopherCon Israel 2020 presentation. It’s also quite long. If you’d prefer a shorter version, head over to the-zen-of-go.netlify.com. A recording of the presentation is available on YouTube. How should I write good code? Something that...

Easy private Helm repositories

Can we have a private Helm repository using GCS as backend? Yes we can!

SEO for Software Engineers

The basics of Search Engine Optimization, written for software developers.

Modules Part 04: Mirrors, Checksums and Athens

Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction One of the longer standing questions I had when first learning about modules was how the module mirror, checksum database a...

Go for Cloud

Go has been continuously growing in the past decade, especially among the infrastructure teams and in the cloud ecosystem. In this article, we will go through some of the unique strengths of Go in this field. We will also cover some gotchas that may not be obvious to the users at...

4K display on MacOS: the saga

I recently got a 4K display, and it didn’t work as I expected on my MacBook Pro. This is what I tried, what worked and what didn’t.

Docker Images : Part I - Reducing Image Size

Series Index Reducing Image Size Details Specific To Different Languages Going Farther To Reduce Image Size Introduction When getting started with containers, it’s pretty easy to be shocked by the size of the images that we build. We’re going to review a number of tec...

GKE using Traefik as the ingress controller

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.

Our first Braintrust LA Event

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...