Setting up GORM Continuing from the app we created in Part 1 PostgreSQL is one of the most popular database choices today because it is free and has most of the features that the big guns like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle offer. To connect our microservice to PostgreSQL, we can simplify our life by using an ORM for GO called GORM… GO-ORM get it? via GIPHY Let's upgrade the gRPC microservice we created in Part 1 to use an actual database instead of just cache. Read more

What do I mean by sexy programming languages? I refer to programming languages as sexy if they are not yet mainstream, but have plenty of buzz around them. They usually have a small but very energetic community, but may be lacking mature libraries here and there due to their only recent stardom. This also provides opportunities for ambitious developers to contribute to open-source. Therefore my list will exclude any mature languages like: Java, Python, C#, PHP and JavaScript. Read more

Summary - Setting up gRPC communication gRPC is a modern, highly-efficient method of communication between systems built by Google. gRPC uses the new and efficient HTTP/2 network protocol as well Google’s Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) method of serialization which allows for more light-weight and predictable communication. Protocol Buffers can be used with any technology stack out there; code can be generated from the .proto file for nearly every programming language available. Read more

Summary KrakenD has caught my attention as a Gateway solution because of its claim at incredible performance and extensibility. It is Open Source and can be tailored to your needs or can be extended in a convenient way with its support for Golang Plugins. Plugin, what? Go plugins are a fairly new addition to Golang (support starting with Go 1.8), but they provide a very innovative way to add functionality to a Go application. Read more

If you are enjoying Go and its community as much as myself but have been using the Azure Cloud Platform for some time already, you will probably want to use Azure Blob Storage at some point. In that case, this blog post is for you. You will need: The first thing you need to do is make sure you set up your blob storage account in Azure Portal and create a blob container. Read more

Golang is efficient, very efficient. Much of this efficiency is attributed to its unique abstractions when dealing with concurrency. Java for example, maps its threads to OS threads, while Go uses its own goroutines scheduler to further abstract its lightweight goroutines from OS threads. In short, Golang is very frugal with how it uses OS threads; if a goroutine becomes blocked, Go’s scheduler will switch in another goroutine in its place to keep the thread busy as much as possible. Read more

There has never been a better time to become a web developer than now. The United States Bureau of Labour Statistics predicts an increase of job postings by 15% between 2016-2026, in comparison to 7% average across all occupations. According to ZipRecruiter the current average salary of a Web Developer in United states is $74,080 with top 1% earning $123,000 to $133,000. Among the general specializations of web developers (front-end, back-end and full-stack); full-stack developers on avereage are paid the highest, which is logical since they have to stay up-to date on both back-end and fron-end technologies. Read more

My name is Ilya, and I am a Full Stack Software Engineer working in Bangkok, Thailand. I grew up in Canada, and I completed my Undergraduate studies in Applied Mathematics. I am a completely self-taught programmer and I am still hungry for more. Hopefully you find something interesting in my blog posts.

Before Angular team decided to turn the its community upside down with the release of Angular 2 in 2016, I did not think Typescript would take off beyond a small loyal group. Having been developed internally my Microsoft, the open source community was wary. But then, the unlikely thing happened, Microsoft and Google joined forces to create Angular (2…) with TypeScript support out of the box. By default. You can imagine this gave TypeScript a strong boost in popularity. Read more