The easy way of learning how to use DDD in a Go application — Microservices have become a very popular approach to build software in recent years. Microservices are used to build scalable and flexible software. However, randomly building microservices across many teams can cause a big frustration and complexity. It wasn’t long ago that I hadn’t heard about Domain-Driven Design — DDD, but…

Learn to get the most of your IDE and make sure you use the full power of it to speed up your development. — I’ve been using VS Code as my main IDE for many many years. Though I’m going to be honest, it took me a few years before I began USING it. In my earlier years as a developer, I was simply leveraging the defaults in VS Code, the syntax highlighting, code…

I wish Go existed when I first started learning to program — Recently I have been seeing the same question appearing over and over in the Go subreddit. Is Golang a good first language to learn? — New Aspiring Developer We have posts like these occurring frequently, along with questions if Go is good for a certain type of project Go as…

If you’ve found this article then I’m guessing you are interested in learning more about how to build an application using blockchain. We will go through how to set up the environment used, building a simple application that can use a BEP-20 token. The token will have a super simple…

Developing Serverless Applications has its challenges, SAM offers a solution to many of those challenges. Learn how to develop lambdas and debug them locally using SAM. — Serverless Applications are great, we can get a function up and running in production at super-fast speed, with crazy uptime, and for almost no cost. Lambda is an AWS service that allows you to deploy small pieces of code that are runnable. For instance, we can deploy a small Go…

Many people ask If programming is a good career choice, here is the top reasons why it is! — We have all heard the saying, “The best predictor of future success is past success.” And in regards to careers, that couldn’t be more true. But what makes programming a good choice for those looking to earn a living? …

You can set the variable value during the build, such as version number, client IDs with the Build command. — Have you ever used hardcoded version numbers, or tried passing configurations to a binary that states the version of the software? I have, and it works, but it is very error-prone. It is easy to forget to change that configuration etc or maintain the version across multiple merge requests.

Being an engineer is not a risk-free job, there are serious dangers out there. — We, software engineers, live a luxurious life. Especially according to those who consider hard work to be done with an axe on the shoulder and with big manly muscles, maybe even a mustache. We engineers sit down all day in our cozy chairs, drink warm fresh brewed coffee, and relax…

Managing microservices or distributed systems has many challenges, Uber has a solution for many of the issues. — Uber is a small startup company, you might have heard about them before. They provide many open-source tools that their engineering team builds. And let me tell you, they are no jokers, they seem like a very competent bunch of developers. Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available…