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Faster transfers between golang services with ndjson
A lot of services have the job to query other services for data and the most straightforward way to do that is to use JSON over a REST API. If the data consists of a big list of things, that means sending over a large JSON array with objects....
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Cgit and golang modules
Recently I started to self host my public git repositories on https://git.ewintr/nl . There are several options to choose from if you want that sort of thing, like Gitea or Gogs and others. These all look like fine applications, but they all try to imitate the big hosted platforms like Github...
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GTE - Email based task management
It’s a rough estimate, but I think there about at least a billion apps and systems out there that can help you organize your daily tasks. All of them suck. Task management apparently is a very personal thing....
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My Take on Logging in Golang
The subject of logging comes up every now and then, in every group of developers. Apparently it is something to be opinionated about, like code formatting. Or to something complain about, like leaving off the cap of the toothpaste. If only there was a go fmt for logging. Or toothpaste....
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Depend Less on Dependencies with the Adapter Pattern in Golang
The package management in Go is pretty convenient. Just run go get and you have another nice library installed on your computer. Just for you to use, saving you hours of developing end debugging the functionality yourself. But there is a downside to it, apart from the fact that downloading and...
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JSON Structured Logging with Nginx
After writing my tutorial on analysis of JSON structured logs on the command line I realized I could apply the same solution for website statistics. If only I could make Nginx to log in the same format....
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Shitty SSG: Code Walkthrough
One would expect a walk through the code of a self proclaimed “shitty” software project not to be a pleasant read. I promise that it is not that bad. Earlier I described why I built this static site generator and the Asciidoc subset that it uses as a markup language. Here I will describe the...
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My Default Golang Directory Structure
Go is very flexible and there are a lot of ways one can set up a project. Files can be placed anywhere and there are very few rules on what packages one can import. People like having certain rules and conventions though, because once a best way to do something is figured out, it saves time to encode...
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Simple Log File Analysis for Your Kubernetes Pods on the Command Line
Recently at my current job there was a lot of complaining about how terribly slow our instance of Kibana was. We use that, as many teams do, to view and analyse the log files generated by the services that run on our Kubernetes cluster. The root cause was that the logs were simply too large, because...
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Ways to test sending email from the command line
Through a telnet connection...