Skipping tests is common practice, especially in startups that sacrifice testing in favor of rapid development. We all know that this is not a best practice, but yet we still do it. A great solution incorporating testing in a fast-paced SDLC is to embed testing in the lifecycle. …

Debugging your Golang Lambda locally can be really annoying. You have great tools on your machine but you don’t always get the most out of them. I experienced with Serverless Application Model (sam local) and it was actually really nice but was not there yet, at least for Go. Some…

Debugging a micro-service in a Kubernetes cluster can be a real pain. Sometimes we face burdensome bugs which might be hard to reproduce in a non-realistic environment. …

The containers eco-system raises a huge hype, almost every infrastructure contains a sleek Kubernetes cluster or at least some Docker containers running in the wild. I think containers are a great tool for deploying your software without worrying about issues like missing dependencies and services coordination for example. …

Every compiler, including Golang’s, optimizes our code to an extent. This makes our build faster and outputs a smaller and probably more efficient binary. However, I believe that sometimes you should take a look under the hood to understand how things work. …