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    Simon Drake


    Husband, Father, Software Engineer

    Testing Network Policies with Minikube

    Posted on January 9, 2022

    Recently, I had to update a Network Policy for one of our services. Before deploying the change, I wanted to test the change with Minikube to ensure I wouldn’t break anything. [Read More]
    Tags: go DevOps k8s

    Are slices copied by value or by reference?

    And what to look out for when using them

    Posted on November 19, 2021

    Consider the following programme (Go playground link). How is it that multiplyByTwo has amended the slice but duplicate hasn’t? How can a slice be both passed by reference (multiplyByTwo) and passed by value (duplicate) without using pointers? [Read More]
    Tags: go

    Value Receivers VS Pointer Receivers in Go

    And can I mix and match them?

    Posted on May 27, 2021

    What is a Method? [Read More]
    Tags: go

    Run Postfacto on any Cloud Provider

    Learn how to install/run Postfacto on any Cloud Provider

    Posted on April 30, 2021

    Postfacto is an excellent tool for Sprint Retrospectives, but the deployment instructions are limited to four platforms (at the time of writing). [Read More]
    Tags: DevOps

    Debugging with delve

    Start using the delve debugger

    Posted on March 29, 2021

    Learn how to use Delve to debug your Go applications and tests. [Read More]
    Tags: go
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