Go

I’ve worked with Go(lang) professionally for over eight years. Now, while some might say I don’t have enough experience to be able to get an entry-level job (looking at you recruiters), others might say that I’m qualified enough to understand Go’s benefits and pitfalls. Today, we look at how Go’s quick and easy cross-compilation can be a deciding factor when answering “Why Use Go?”. The first use case that led me to migrate a project to Go was a requirement to work across multiple platforms to extract, transform and load data....

Terraform Plugin Framework Custom Types One of the great new things the Terraform Plugin Framework provides is a stronger focus on strict typing and with that, the ability to develop custom types. One of the first issues I discovered straight out of the gate when attempting to build a new Terraform Provider with the Plugin Framework was that the data I was modelling for a resource used UUIDs for its record ids....

Terraform If you’ve been living under a rock or happen to be a newcomer in the DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering space, Hashicorp’s Terraform enables provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure. It’s essentially a glorified diffing tool for any cloud resource that, as long as a Terraform Provider exists, can ensure the state of your infrastructure is as expected when written in Hashicorp Config Language (HCL). As a forewarning before digging deeper, it has been common to hear some Linuxy sysadmin-looking neckbeards in-passing talking about infrastructure as code, better known as IaC, being the bee’s knees and how they keep managing to give Dave a good ribbing after causing the Great Network failure of ‘22 after performing a Git force push…...

Take the following Go code as an example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 package main type CodeType int const ( CodeA CodeType = iota + 10 CodeB ) func calculateCodes(codeType CodeType) int { var value int if codeType == CodeA { value = 10 } else { value = 20 } return value } func main() { fmt....