Have you ever wrote JUnit tests extending a class that does some before and after work, so you didn’t have to repeat that code in various test classes? Well, I will not say that you have been doing it wrong, but, sure enough, you could do it better. How? Using JUnit Rules!...
FullStory is a tool for understanding website visitors in a whole new way. An in-page script captures everything that happens during a user’s online session, including the entire DOM and every mutation.
Bleve, a text indexing and search library for Go, is excited to be part of the celebration of the 5th birthday of Go. Building a complete solution for indexing and search text requires integrating many different technologies. Go, the language, the standard library, the whole ec...
In March of 2012, I had just left VMware and the project I had founded, architected and built, Cloud Foundry. PaaS then was still very new, as was a distributed system built in Ruby.
When the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) started working on GOV.UK, much of it was built in Ruby. Since then, we’ve used a number of different programming languages across government including Java, Clojure, Scala, Python and Javascript.
Go really makes concurrency easy. That said, there’s still some things to watch out for and not every 3rd party package you find out there is ready to have “go” put in front of its functions.
InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Go. One of the important distinctions between Influx and some other time series solutions is that it doesn’t require any other software to install and run.
What is Kubernetes? And what kind of name is that? Kubernetes is a container cluster management system. Modeled after Google’s internal systems, Kubernetes (or k8s for short) allows users to schedule the running of Docker containers over a cluster of machines.
The Go Birthday Bash Today is a special day for Go enthusiasts across the globe. We’re celebrating the 5th birthday of a programming language, and perhaps just as importantly: a community.
Introduction In part I of this post, we learned about the error interface and how the standard library provides support for creating error interface values via the errors package. We also learned how to work with error interface values and use them to identify when an error has o...