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How to build Go plugin with data inside
Go 1.8 gives us a new tool for creating shared libraries, called plugins! This new plugin buildmode is currently only supported on Linux. But what if we build plugin with data in binary format inside? So we can ship only one .so file.
Pros and Cons: Golang in a Monorepo
Monorepo - is a monolithic code repository which can contain different services (or whatever you want to call them), CLI, libraries, etc.
Text-Based User Interfaces
Want to equip your command-line application with a nice visual user interface? TUI libraries are here to help.
How to use go-bindata with html/template
What is go-bindata and why do we need it? go-bindata converts any text or binary file into Go source code, which is useful for embedding data into Go programs. So you can build your whole project into 1 binary file for easier delivery.
Automatic Stackdriver Tracing for gRPC
In monolithic systems, it is relatively easy to collect diagnostic data from the building blocks of a program. All modules live within one process and share common resources to report logs and errors. Once you are distributing your system into microservices, it becomes harder to...
gh: a tiny tool to manage GitHub repositories in your GOPATH
As a Golang developer I have to clone a lot of packages/tools/etc into $GOPATH/src/github.com. Sometimes I do go get, sometimes it’s necessary to do a combination of mkdir + git clone. So to save my time I wrote a tiny function gh, that actually is the same as cd thatbut al...
Measuring production code coverage with JaCoCo
Microservices is the new fancy way of doing applications. Yet, most companies still have big and old monoliths in production. In fast evolving software of this size, it’s usual to have lines of code which are never executed in production. Production code coverage reports ca...
Breaking Things on Purpose (Gremlin)
Flow To Go
If you want to do Flow-Based Programming in Go, there are a couple of frameworks and libraries available. Or you simply do it with pure Go. After all, how difficult can it be?