A few years ago, I set up a Kubernetes Cluster on Raspberry Pi’s. At the time, the ARM architecture of Raspberry Pi’s posed some challenges. Finding applications that supported ARM was a tough task which often led me to having to manually build my own applications and containers for anything…

Proper testing can be difficult and even seem impossible. Following best practices to test your code is a good start, but you’re still going to run into edge cases where things aren’t as expected. One challenge in particular, is being able to accurately simulate your deployments remote environment. Figuring out…

Prometheus is an popular open-source monitoring tool that provides functionality for displaying, querying, and alerting on time-series data that’s collected from various targets. Typically, it’s used in combination with Grafana for visualizing and building observability dashboards which let you understand the state of your systems at a glimpse. One less…

For the first part of my Go series, I discuss different applications for best using goroutines and channels with an emphasis towards server-sided Go development. Before looking through concrete examples, lets look into a comparison of concurrency and parallelism. Awhile back I read an interesting definition comparing the two: Concurrency…