Go

Containers were this awesome technology that ushered in the Cloud era and with a lot of new FaaS tools coming along, companies are wondering if they should jump the container ship altogether. As it turns out, containers definitely have value in Serverless. In this session we will take an existing containerized app and move it into AWS Fargate, look at the cost of running it, and how we can monitor it.

As a developer, I always thought that security, like documentation, would be done by someone else. While that might have been true in the past, in today’s world that model no longer works. As a developer you’re responsible for the security of your app. Security in this case should be seen in the broadest sense of the word, ranging from licenses to software packages. A chef creating cheesecake has similar challenges. The ingredients of a cheesecake are similar to the software packages a developer uses. The preparation is similar to the DevOps pipeline, and recipe is similar to the licenses for developers. Messing up any of those means you have a messy kitchen, or a data breach!

Trusting Your Ingredients - What Building Go Apps And Cheesecake Have In Common.

In this lightning session at GopherCon 2019, I got the chance to talk about two things I love. Cheesecake and Golang! As a developer, I’ve written code and built apps, and I realized that building apps and creating a cheesecake have a lot in common. In both cases you need to have the right ingredients, you need to trust your suppliers and have transparency in your production process. In this talk, we’ll look at how you can, and why you should, know what is in the app you deploy.

Go modules are here to stay and it’s about time to start modularizing your code. During the meetup at the Go UserGroup in Atlanta we spoke about:

• What Go modules are and why you need them
• The benefits are of using modules
• The differences between modules and the things we did before that
• What you need to do to “switch” to modules.

Go modules are here to stay and I got the chance to talk to the Atlanta chapter of Woman Who Go on what Go modules are and how you can switch to use them.

In my talk “Duct Tape and String: Continuously Delivering Serverless Microservices” at swampUP 2019, I got to talk about some best practice for the project that got me excited about both serverless and K8s: OpenFaaS! For me that meant I got to combine a lot of the things I care about (Containers, Serverless, and Golang), while talking about the awesome possibilities that using Artifactory brings you.

Go modules are here to stay and it’s about time to start modularizing your code. At the Go Silicon Valley + Go Bridge meetup I presented a lightning session, which covered:

• Flying through what Go modules are and why you need them;
• What the benefits are of using modules;
• The differences between modules and the things we did before that;
• What you need to do to “switch” to modules.

My last blog post was about the difference in speed downloading Go modules from a version control system or from GoCenter. I got a bunch of questions on Twitter on why that was and this blog post goes into a bit more detail on how the Go client gets modules. TL;DR Using GoCenter speeds up the download of your Go modules because it uses the right protocol when downloading files, saves on the number of HTTP calls and doesn’t have to recreate the module on the client side.

After GoCenter was first released the team at JFrog said it was faster to get modules from there than it was getting modules “the old way”. To be honest, when they said that, I did not believe them. Following the old proverb “seeing is believing”, I set out to test the speed and see whether those claims were accurate. TL;DR: It turns out the team was right!

Go is the language of choice for a lot of (cloud-native) projects because it creates very streamlined binaries. We used to “vendor” in all dependencies, but with Go Modules we now have real dependency management. We’ll show you a few pipelines from code to production and see if Modules are that much better to make builds lightning quick and hassle-free.