One of blogs that I enjoy reading is The Daily WTF. Recently there was this article that highlighted some weird Geoinformatics WTF. What was interesting was that the comments on this post revolved around the performance of counting digits. Should somebody use Math.Log10 or do some basic counting. 1var digits = 0; …

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Software development and deployment is very much like an adventure game. Where you're faced with puzzles that might take you a day to solve, by picking up pieces and stumbling around in a dark room. Once you've figured it out, you could go back and solve the puzzle in 10 minutes. One of the manage challenges with …

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Short post -- ended up switching from sqlx to db.v3 since I felt that the sqlx layer was more likely to be error prone. db.v3 example 1func (u *UserService) UpdateUser(user *model.User, args struct { 2 Name *string 3 Email *string 4 Password *string 5}) (*model.User, error) { 6 update := make(map[string]interface{}) 7 …

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GraphQL DateTime Scalar Value Strings are not your friend when it comes to date time types. The problem is that with the naive definition you'll get the wrong value. For starters the naive definition looks like this: 1// GraphQL 2// type Object { 3// updated_at String 4// } 5// 6 7// The Go structure definition 8struct …

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This is some useful inisights I've gained, that are worth noting. The code examples are from a gist clone that I'm playing around with, it's easier to have a "known" problem and target to experiment with software than trying to do both at the same time. React What's clear is that with appropriate use of …

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One of the great challenges in software engineering is that you don’t know what the problem is until you’ve worked through it one. Sometimes this is the idea that you need to top down design a program which is a great start, but what’s interesting is when it comes to the language itself and what it makes easy and hard. …

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This post really documents the checkpoint in my experiments with GoLang and Frontend development. As some people might know that I’ve been playing around with application structure, languages and approaches for a while. My GoLang AngularJS and ES6 Todo App over at GitHub – it’s the reference for the rest of this post. …

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Yesterday’s post where I figured out what it took to build thrift interfaces to attach to Cloudera Impala got a big improvement today. I combined my work with the hivething project that Derek Greentree wrote. It’s of course called impalathing over on github, it really does clean up the API. The big thing is that since …

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This started out as a quick project to see about taking a component of our service and migrating it from Python to Go. We’ve been talking about migrating services from the semi-monolithic version to more loosely coupled – the general idea is to move to Thrift oriented services. We have a core component of our system …

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