Like a lot of people using Go, I used “ldflags” to add the version number to my binaries. It worked great, every time a binary was built, it pulled the version from “git describe” and add that version to a variable in the binary. Then when testing and a bug…

In a previous article, I wrote about coding hacks in Go that I’d come across over the years. For this article, I decided to write about a few of the pitfalls I’ve also come across. These are the type of bug causing quirks that the compiler will overlook and are…

In a recent Go project, I had to choose what data format to use for sending and receiving data. My usual go-to is JSON, but I decided I would give an honest comparison of the options. As I’m sure you’ve gleaned from the title, the main contenders are YAML, JSON…

AutoML is a fantastic suite of products from Google that lowers the barrier to entry for those wanting to make use of machine learning (ML). It allows you to upload a dataset and it will take care of creating the machine learning model for you. It then hosts the model…

This is Part 2 in a guide to creating your own AutoML Text Classifier using off the shelf parts like spaCy and Firebase. In Part 1, I talked about the architecture of the project and how to set up the various components needed to run it. In this article, I…

This is Part 2 in a series of articles on gRPC that my colleague Scott Walker and I are working on. It continues on from Part 1, and we will show some examples of exposing a gRPC service using REST and auto-generating a swagger file for it too. …

gRPC is an open-source high-performance RPC framework that can efficiently connect services in and across data centres and is magic as far as I’m concerned. I first came across gRPC a few years ago and was blown away by how good it was. My colleague Scott Walker and I decided…

I’m working on a small side project, for which I’m using Firebase and Google Cloud Functions. So far it’s been great however one of the use cases requires a response from the Cloud Function within a certain time limit. Occasionally, usually after the weekend, the Cloud Function will need to…