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. …

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…

I stumbled on this problem during some SaaS musings. If a customer wants their on-prem devices to communicate with your SaaS running in GCP, how would you go about it? The obvious answer for GCP is service accounts. However, you are limited to 100 service accounts per project in GCP…

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…