Introduction I have spent a career building business applications that work with databases, starting with SQL and then moving to No-SQL. I’ve been curious how Graph databases work and how to build applications with them. It seems the sweet spot for a Graph database is when your application needs to model the interrelationships of complex and different datasets. I’ve been using No-SQL databases for these types of applications so I am super interested in knowing how Graph databases differ.

Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction It’s no secret that I am a fan of vendoring when it’s reasonable and practical to use it for your application projects. I believe vendoring gives your application projects the most durability since the project owns every line of source code it needs to build the applications. If you want a reproducible build without needing to rely on external services (like module mirrors) and being connected to the network, vendoring is the solution.

Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Prelude This is a guest post written by Rohan Challa, a member of the Go team working on gopls. This document is a follow up to Bill Kennedy’s post on projects, dependencies and gopls. His post showed that gopls did not work well with modules, particularly when adding and removing dependencies from a project inside of your editor.

Series Index Reducing Image Size Details Specific To Different Languages Going Farther To Reduce Image Size Introduction In the first two parts of this series, we covered the most common methods to optimize Docker image size. We saw how multi-stage builds, combined with Alpine-based images, and sometimes static builds, would generally give us the most dramatic savings. In this last part, we will see how to go even farther. We will talk about standardizing base images, stripping binaries, assets optimization, and other build systems or add-ons like DockerSlim or Bazel, as well as the NixOS distribution.

Series Index Reducing Image Size Details Specific To Different Languages Going Farther To Reduce Image Size Introduction In the first part, we introduced multi-stage builds, static and dynamic linking, and briefly mentioned Alpine. In this second part, we are going to dive into some details specific to Go. Then we will talk more about Alpine, because it’s worth it; and finally we will see how things play out with other languages like Java, Node, Python, Ruby, and Rust.

Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction One of the longer standing questions I had when first learning about modules was how the module mirror, checksum database and Athens worked. The Go team has written extensively about the module mirror and checksum database, but I hope to consolidate the most important information here. In this post, I provide the purpose of these systems, the different configuration options you have, and show these systems in action using example programs.

Series Index Reducing Image Size Details Specific To Different Languages Going Farther To Reduce Image Size Introduction When getting started with containers, it’s pretty easy to be shocked by the size of the images that we build. We’re going to review a number of techniques to reduce image size, without sacrificing developers’ and ops’ convenience. In this first part, we will talk about multi-stage builds, because that’s where anyone should start if they want to reduce the size of their images.

Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction Every dependency management solution has to solve the problem of picking a version of a dependency. Many of the version selection algorithms that exist today attempt to identify the “latest greatest” version of any dependency. This makes sense if you believe semantic versioning will be applied correctly and the social contract will be respected.

Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction Modules is the system integrated into Go to provide support for dependency management. This means modules touch just about anything related to working with source code, including editor support. To provide editors with support for modules (and for other reasons), the Go team built a service named gopls which implements the language server protocol (LSP).

“Flutter and Fuchsia. In 2019 you will see these two words everywhere, and now is your chance to get ahead of the curve.” - Todd Fabacher, writing for Forbes Forbes saw it coming back in July of 2018. If you didn’t, then here’s your chance to find out why they did. From lower lead times to increased productivity, the number of platforms you’ll be able to reach to the simplicity of maintenance, Flutter is now leading the way in just about every category.