Nowadays successful applications often consist of containers and container management system to: 1) ease scaling 2) reduce down time 3) add self healing capabilities. Let’s take a high level overview of most commonly used tools and build something cool too. My plan is to create open tcp port scanning tool…

Ever wondered how streams are working in Node.js? I had. So far I know that using streams will most certainly reduce memory usage on the server when processing large files. Instead of reading whole file into memory we stream it in chunks to whoever requested it and apply transformations to…

What I’d like to point out in this post is pretty common issue I had to deal with over and over again and share some patterns that have worked well on small to large sized projects for me. Some time ago I came across a route handler that was 2k…

During past couple of years I have worked on few projects written in GO. I noticed that the biggest challenge developers are facing is lack of constraints or standards when it comes to project layout. I’d like to share some findings and patterns that have worked best for me and…

Good cake is the one you can easily slice into parts with no crumbs falling apart. That’s all this project is about: 3 simple parts, no nasty additives. …

In a previous post I was explaining the basics of setting up GO application for REST API. Now I’ll go into details by first creating configurable server, adding http router (mux) and some DB interaction. Let’s get (the indoors party) started! The application is now running in docker, can respond…