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Golang

Dependency Injection patterns in Go

Dependency Injection is a powerful approach to providing your applications with required objects and configuration instead of declaring them in code. This injection is usually used to provide mock objects for unit testing, or to run the same application in multiple environments.

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Golang tips and tricks

It’s been a while since I’ve started programming with Go, and I managed to pick up certain tricks along the way, which I’ll present you with. Use them wisely and you’ll be on your way to creating that beautiful product or service you’ve been itching to start.

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Docker Maze: the benefit of coding competitions

Coding competitions are a good way to test and improve your skills. Some of the skills you might already have just by the nature of the engineering job itself - you have to set up your development environments, trouble-shoot connectivity issues, and solve problems when they occur. I don’t need to tell you that it’s better to learn these skills in a controlled environment, and perhaps not while watching your production systems fail. And in case that does happen - you don’t want to be the one who’s just looking at whatever metrics you have and pray for some kind of miracle. But, putting a time limit on a competition - it keeps some pressure on you, just like the real thing.

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Deploying Go applications with Docker

When dealing with a new language, if it’s migrating from PHP to Node, or if it’s your first time trying out Go, you eventually get to the point when you have to think about how you will use your new application in production. How you will deploy it, how you will run it, and how you will make sure that it’s running well. I’m a big advocate od Docker, let me show you why.

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