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A History of the Cloud and Where It's Going Next

There’s no doubt public cloud providers have transformed the technology landscape; in this post we retrace the evolution of the cloud to gather clues into where the industry is headed next.

Why UX Will Get Worse Before it Gets Better

The things we make are not user-friendly by accident; we have to make them that way.

Using Google's Secret Manager API with Go

Security is by definition an inconvenience. At the very least, it’s about making access to data as challenging as possible for the baddies, conveniently measured in computation time.

What Are Protocol Buffers?

Protocol buffers are a method for serializing data to efficiently send between programs. The structure is reminiscent of XML or JSON, but unlike these more commonly used text-based serialization methods, protocol buffers are designed to produce extremely compact messages using a binary format.

Contexts in Go Microservice Chains

Contexts are a critical part of services implemented in Golang. Although we see them often in server interfaces, they can be mysterious to developers implementing request handlers.

Can't Read, Won't Buy

To say we are not at our most empowered when trying to communicate in an unfamiliar language is a bit of an understatement.

A Distributed Systems Maze

The most exciting applications coming out these days are the ones that aim big — aspiring to reach a global audience of users across regions, languages, timezones, and data centers.

Project Planning With Block Based Dependencies

Good software development achieves complexity by describing the interactions of simple components. Of course, this is harder than it sounds, and if Mark Twain had been a software developer he would have likely said: “if I had more time, I would have created a simpler design.