What's the Shrt Stry on Go Var Names

Is I have mentioned in a previous post we are all products of our own histories, and this will definitely impact your appreciation or frustration of the subtleties of the Go community guidelines on naming. …

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Bazel Fawlty

Like Basil Fawlty, Bazel promises a great deal, but makes a bit of a fuss about something that could have been done so much more easily. This is at least true in any medium to large sized Golang project, it is worse if using OSX. Whilst Bazels goals are desireable they are easily and more simply achieved with the Go tools, especially since go 1.10. …

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Shut Up and Take My Money Summary

Vincent Haupert Presented at the Chaos Communication Congress A talk about some severe security breaches in the fintech startup Number26 app and API. Here is a summary of the key points. …

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The Cult of Go Test

A favourite test helper library, with some simple test assertion functions clearly has some value. But this post puts forward some useable concrete arguments why they are normally just not worth it. …

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What Golang Is and Is Not

We are all products of our own histories, and I suspect many routes to Go have been made less enjoyable by misguided expectations. The journey from when a budding developer first ‘hello worlded’ to now may have made Go’s more subtle strengths less obvious to them. …

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The Test Pyramid and Availability Bias

The test pyramid has its place - it gets across a simple idea, but it has been taken too literally, and applied innapropriately. …

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