My name is Benjamin Cane, and you've landed on my engineering blog. I have a background in distributed systems operations, architecture, and development. You will find articles about all sorts of topics like Docker, Linux, Go, Python, and lots more. I hope you enjoy the blog.
Using Viper With Consul to Configure Go Applications
Viper is a powerful configuration library which also supports pulling configuration from Consul. However, using Consul is not straightforward. This article explains how to use Viper with Consul...
Golang's Interfaces explained with Mocks
This article covers Go interfaces’ basics and how you can use them to create modular and testable code....
How to Structure a Go Command-Line Project
Best practices around structuring Go command-line applications where packages go, parse command-line arguments, and optimize for testing....
Golang working with JSON: Maps vs. Structs
This article covers how to use maps and structs to parse JSON, which is better and safer. It also covers how to work with maps safely....
Don't mock Databases, just run them with Docker
Use Docker Compose to create on-demand databases within your local & build environments...