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Selectively Running Tests in Go

Selectively Running Tests in Go

This should most likely be filed in "things I'll probably forget unless I write it down." This post covers how to selectively run a subset of tests in Go. This can be useful for running a single test, all tests with a certain naming convention in

A Guide to Effective Slack

A Guide to Effective Slack

With more and more companies moving to a remote-first or hybrid model, having an easy way to share and find information in efficient ways is more important than ever. The following post covers different categories of channels that I've seen in different companies and the benefits of each

How to Build a Queue Using Buffered Channels in Go

How to Build a Queue Using Buffered Channels in Go

In this post, we'll look at how to implement a queue using a buffered channel. For those less familiar, a channel in Go is a way to send and receive data across concurrent goroutines. The difference between a buffered and non-buffered channels is, that for unbuffered channels, send

An Intro to Building a Go Application with Bazel

An Intro to Building a Go Application with Bazel

So, I've been using Bazel for a little bit and it's a pretty neat build system. There are some things about it that are not super obvious and have struggled a bit with my learning curve, but wanted to share what I know so far to

Generating Mock Versions of Interfaces in Go

Generating Mock Versions of Interfaces in Go

I've been a big fan of using Testify [https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/stretchr/testify]'s mocking capabilities and it has made building unit tests really easy. The one piece that I feel like is missing is the autogeneration of a basic mock given an interface.

A Guide to Healthy Code Reviews

A Guide to Healthy Code Reviews

Regardless of where I've been in my career, teams tend to come to the same conclusion about what makes for a healthy code review. Given how often code reviews happen, it's important to recognize that the tone we set in reviews will impact the overall team

Gracefully Shutting Down a Server in Go

Gracefully Shutting Down a Server in Go

The post covers how to gracefully shut down a server in Go. This is important as there may be some tooling you're using that is batching things locally i.e. traces, logs, events, etc. behind the scenes and if the server shutdowns, we may lose this data. What

Creating Interactive Shell Scripts

Creating Interactive Shell Scripts

I should probably preface this post by saying that I have a few Achilles' heels when it comes to programming: naming things, writing regex, and remembering how to do anything when it comes to shell scripts. Don't get me wrong, I feel like I'm pretty

How to Recover from Panics in Go

How to Recover from Panics in Go

Before putting code out into the world, it's important to be as proactive as possible in handling any and all errors to ensure happy customers and restful nights.

How to Set Up Distributed Tracing in Your Local Environment

How to Set Up Distributed Tracing in Your Local Environment

It's deceptively simple to get distributed tracing setup on your local environment thanks to an all-in-one Jaeger Docker image.

How to Set Up Syntax Highlighting with Ghost and Prism

How to Set Up Syntax Highlighting with Ghost and Prism

There really isn't a lot of magic to it, but maybe it was less straightforward for me because I didn't read the documentation super well. Or maybe I did and the information was missing. You'll never know! Getting to the point, there is really

Favorite Tools: December 2019 Edition

Favorite Tools: December 2019 Edition

A list of my favorite new tools I used in December 2019.

Managing Your Application Version with SemVer

Managing Your Application Version with SemVer

I’m in the midst of designing a CI/CD pipeline and was looking for a way to auto-increment the the application versions somewhere within there. The first step was to try to track down some kind of web service or script that would do this for me. I ended