Simon Drake

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