Heroku PostgreSQL vs. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is becoming the relational database of choice for web development for a whole host of good reasons. That means…

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Containerizing Opinionated Applications

Containerizing an in-house application can be complex; a great resource for guiding this process is Docker’s list of Dockerfile best…

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Batch Deployment in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Zero downtime deployment — i.e., making sure your application can be deployed without negative impact to your customers — is…

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godep Dependency Management in Go

Go differs from many other languages in that a wide range of dependency management methods and tools exist for it.…

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Continuous Integration and Delivery with Docker

Continuous delivery is all about reducing risk and delivering value faster by producing reliable software in short iterations. As Martin…

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Monolithic core vs full microservice architecture

Martin Fowler recently released another article on microservices, specifically about the hype surrounding them. He states that though microservices are…

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Building Minimal Docker Containers for Go Applications

There are several great official and community-supported containers for many programming languages, including Go, but these containers can be quite…

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Creating Fakes in Go with Channels

Fakes are a common testing technique that involve creating a bare implementation of an interface that you can use in…

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AWS Lambda: An Introduction

Many parts of a modern infrastructure are inherently event-driven or can be represented with an event-driven model. For example, we…

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