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The 12 Factors of Go

The 12 Factor App methodology is a set of best practices to follow when building modern software applications. It was created by Heroku as a guide for developers to optimize application development for their platform as a service. At the core, the 12FA methodology is a marketing document, but the concepts behind individual practices outline best practices that can be followed regardless of the platform where you publish your apps.

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Docker, you lied to me

I know, I know. I’m dramatic. The title is basically clickbait, but the subject is just as true as the title. You should read this article because it will save your life! Okay, it might not save your life, but most likely it will solidify some very important information about Docker containers, which will most likely save of some drama down the line.

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Setting up your own Docker swarm

Scaling your service has usually been in the domain of system operators, which installed servers and developers tweaking software when the load got high enough to warrant scaling. Soon enough you’d be looking at tens or even hundreds of instances which took a lot of time to manage. With the release of Docker 1.12, you now have orchestration built in - you can scale to as many instances as your hosts can allow. And setting up a docker swarm is easy-peasy.

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Golang tips and tricks, part 3

When you’re writing software it’s not so much the one liner that changes how you work, but the balancing act of programming patterns you use to build your software. I’m hoping to outline a few rules and patterns which make sense to me when building out software in Go.

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Building your own build status indicator with GoLang and RPi3

A few months ago I had been participating in the Docker Maze challenge, where I was awarded a Raspberry PI 3. The package was lying on my desk for more time than I care to admit, but finally I decided on a project which seemed interesting to me. I was going to make a build status indicator. Whenever one of my projects would fail, I would turn on some external peripheral that would let me know that something broke.

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