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Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Messages

In it’s most basic ways, protocol buffers or protobufs are an approach to serialize structured data with minimal overhead. They require that the data structures be known and compatible between the client and server, unlike JSON where the structure itself is part of the encoding.

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Next level Go testing

Go makes it very easy to write tests. In fact, the test tool is built in the standard toolchain, and you can just run go test to run your tests, without installing extra dependencies or anything else. The testing package is part of the standard library, and it’s use, I’m happy to observe, is pretty wide spread.

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Things I learned about DevOps in Q1

Being a software engineer, programmer, developer - is not a destination. The good ones have a natural curiosity, where the main measure of an activity is what you learned while doing it. There’s a number of things that people learn - some which can eventually be explained away by documentation. What it logical isn’t always how things are.

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Run NodeJS anywhere using Docker and Nexe

A project I’m working on currently requires me to build a server side agent daemon. Due to the nature of the agent, a live connection requires to be open to the managing node server, using websockets. PHP is not very well suited to this kind of workload, so the obvious choice was to develop it using NodeJS. I will build a Docker image containing the application, as well as provide a standalone binary for people who don’t have Docker, but also don’t want the hassle of installing NodeJS.

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A venture in continous integration
Green lines are code deploys and red ones are requests going to a part of the cluster. I had a big deploy today, and I'm glad to come out of it relatively unscathed. Frameworks now use Composer packages, more code reuse now Updated structural framework, base classes Relatively smart and simple dependency injection Proper exception handling and notification Obviously there was some breakage. I had to fix about 5 incorrectly implemented interfaces, out of which one was affecting work (3 minutes to fix in production!
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