TLDR OpenTelemetry shopping cart is repo that includes a microservices application, OpenTelemetry components, and many observability backend tools (the whole Grafana stack, Elasticsearch, Jaeger) ...

This is loosely part 2 of my latest blog post on advancements in routing. One of the other new features in Go 1.22 is the ability to have the HTTP method enforced directly in the path. But let’s fi...

It seems like with every release, Go becomes better and better. Go 1.22 is no different. There are a lot of great advancements in this new release, but one in particular is really noteworthy: Impro...

Go has a very powerful approach to concurrency. Not unlike other concurrency models, it can be challenging to handle errors. With Go, we utilize goroutines to handle our concurrent workloads. Take,...

I’m a huge fan of end-to-end (e2e) tests. They give me the most confidence that my software is doing what I think it should be doing in production, but they aren’t without their faults. Let’s take ...

I’m sitting here on December 31st as the final hours of 2023 come to a close, and I reflect on the past twelve months of blogging. So here we are! I had 283k visits with 330k total pageviews! T...

I recently blogged about Go project templates and how you can use some boilerplate to quickly get up and running with your new Go program. It’s also a pretty common thing to write CLIs in Go, and I...

It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should b...

Helm has been at the heart of Kubernetes deployments for years. If you are managing any amount of Kubernetes clusters, then you have likely already installed a Helm chart in your environment. And f...

This past year I published my first book. While it was a rewarding experience, there were many challenges and obstacles along the way. But one thing I did in the beginning was figure out tooling so...