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Go

Modern (Go) application design

LSC - Large scale code changes

Modify after write

Real world optimisation

How we use logging

DevOps

Service-Oriented Architecture with Docker and Caddy

Extending pflag with environment variables

Docker: Building images with security in mind

Make: Dynamic Makefile targets

A love song for Bash

Docker

Service-Oriented Architecture with Docker and Caddy

Docker: Building images with security in mind

A love song for Bash

Things I learned about DevOps in Q1

Store config in the environment

Engineering

Writing Great Go Code

Elegant code and Go

When to kill your startup?

CSS Resets are broken

One programmer is not like the other

Database

Improving our database handling

Go: implementing a microservice

Go: Dependency injection with Wire

Go: Generating database schema documentation

Go: Database first struct generation

Performance

Real world optimisation

Optimizing requests with a queue

Go: Stress testing our service

Optimization strategy

In process performance statistics with Redis

Testing

Docker: Building images with security in mind

Go: Testing database migrations with Drone CI

Error handling and where Go2 gets it wrong

Writing Great Go Code

Listing interfaces with Go AST for gomock/moq

APIs

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: gRPC

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Services

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Messages

Protecting API access with JWT

Handling HTTP requests with go-chi

Observability

Real world optimisation

Instrumenting the Database client with Elastic APM

Go: Instrumenting the HTTP service with Elastic APM

Basic monitoring of Go apps with the runtime package

So far there is a distinct lack of snakes

Code Generation

Go: Dependency injection with Wire

Go: Database first struct generation

Bash: Embedding files into Go

Bash: Poor mans code generation

Embedding data in Go executables

BitRot

Connecting to a Cisco VPN with OpenConnect on a Chromebook without Crouton

Mysteries of system administration ...

The Billion Dollar Session Cookie

Microservices

Microservice background jobs

Issuing requests against our microservice

Go: implementing a microservice

The 12 Factors of Go

Networking

Service-Oriented Architecture with Docker and Caddy

Bypassing docker network isolation (hack)

Debugging Docker network connectivity

Networking basics with Docker

PHP

Testing PHP code using Docker

Premature optimization

PHP Comparisons

Maintaining broken code

Tools

LSC - Large scale code changes

Modify after write

Generating a book cover with docker

Using Docker and PhantomJS to generate big Twitter headings

GRPC

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: gRPC

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Services

Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Messages

LUA

Calling Go functions from LUA

Improving NGINX LUA cache purges

Purging cached items from NGINX with LUA

SQL

Outperforming MySQL by hand

MySQL optimization and diagnostics tactics

MySQL & replication "oh, right" moments

NoSQL

In process performance statistics with Redis

I like Google's error messages. That's about it.

Best Practices

Modern (Go) application design

Redis

Store config in the environment