I recently wrote a post on configuration management (Golang Configuration in 12 Factor Applications). It got me thinking about writing a series of posts about what is meant when we talk about a 'cloud native' application. So this is the beginning of a series on writing, from scratch, a cloud-native application. I am choosing a simple application so that the focus is more on the principles of [...]
I have been working on a Go project for the past couple of months, I have found the language pleasant to use and the tooling has been pretty impressive. I am not going to talk about this though, I am more interested in how to build out a 12 Factor app in Golang. I won’t go into detail in this post on the 12 factors. But if you would like to know more the following (https://12factor.net/) [...]
When I was writing up the last post I spent a fair amount of time with Adrian figuring out what kind of things I would want in my perfect docker-build tool. I’m not going to go into too much detail around each of the build tools as I will follow up with a more in-depth post on the current tooling soon. So without further ado, my wish-list (in no particular order): Fast This [...]
ImageWolf now has support for Kubernetes! We even made a video (see below). If you want to see the code though, you can find it in its normal place. TLDR; we used BitTorrent to speed up Kubernetes deployments https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/ImageWolf That’s great! but what is it? I’m glad you asked. Essentially, it’s a service that aims to alleviate bottlenecks when [...]
