Posts

Oct 2, 2021
Setup Golang in 2021 (still on MacOS)
Just received a new laptop and realized that my notes from 2019 are not up to date. We do not use dep and GO workspaces. Time to make a new checklist.
Mar 14, 2021
http.Server.WriteTimeout vs http.TimeoutHandler
By default, the Go HTTP Server puts no time limits for execution. It is the developer's responsibility to set appropriate timeouts to prevent connection leaks. This article compares two options to manage timeouts.
Nov 29, 2020
Golang APM with Opentracing and Datadog
Opentracing is getting popular as a vendor-agnostic APM API for microservices. This article describes how to use it in Go service and with Datadog.
Oct 20, 2019
How to verify AWS SNS message with Clojure
AWS Simple Notifications Services (SNS) delivers messages to multiple recipients including HTTP and HTTPS subscribers. Endpoint should verify message origin before it is processed. Let's see how message validation can be implemented in Clojure.
Sep 9, 2019
Can new Go errors wrapper replace pkg/errors?
Go version 1.13 includes new functions to work with errors. These functions are expired by popular github.com/pkg/errors package. Let's see if new wrapper can replace existing library.
Apr 29, 2019
Skip tests in Go
Different types of tests require different schedules. We run tests for our code as soon as we make changes, after that we run the whole test suite to commit code to the source control. Database modification requires running DB tests. How can we control what tests to run?
Apr 28, 2019
Code Coverage in Go
Getting Golang code coverage and posting to Coveralls.io is simple. Or not?
Apr 17, 2019
Angular code coverage using CircleCI and Coveralls
Step by step instructions how to enable Code Coverage check for your Angular CI pipeline.
Apr 8, 2019
Setup Go Dev environment on macOS
This post is not intended to provide comprehensive instructions and answers to all the questions related to the topic. Instead, it describes what works for me and how you can achieve production ready Go environment enabled for TDD.
Apr 6, 2019
Uninstall Go on macOS
After working for several years on different Go versions and using variety of different tools it is time to reset my system to the "clean" state. Just to be clear, my machine works just fine, it is a perfectionist inside me who wants to remove stuff that is not in use anymore.
Jun 30, 2017
Go on AWS CodeBuild beyond Hello World
CodeBuild is an AWS managed build service. Out of the box it supports many programming languages including Java, Node, Python, Ruby and Golang. AWS provides good documentation and samples for different frameworks to get developers up to speed. I currently use Golang on my machine. Let me show you how CodeBuild works with Go ecosystem. I will start with a simple hello-world project and later will make it more complicated to demonstrate how CodeBuild deals with dependencies and nested packages.
Apr 23, 2017
My posts at Jocks to the Core
Links to my posts in previous blog
Feb 26, 2017
Hello World!
Hello World!