Communication

How good of a substitute are protocol buffers to JSON?

Sharif Anani / 2022-02-17
Over the past year or two, I’ve come within smelling distance of Protocol Buffers a few times, but I never actually got to touch them, do anything with them, or even contribute to a project…
Containers

FileSync to speed up development workflows with Skaffold

Sharif Anani / 2022-02-12
Before reading this post, check out the previous post to see how we got here. […] Skaffold watches for changes and rebuilds the containers by default. However, completely rebuilding the…
Containers

Moving a docker-compose workflow to Kubernetes with Skaffold

Sharif Anani / 2022-01-31
In this post, we’ll go through creating a small stub server using Go, and we’ll deploy it in a development environment using docker-compose. After that, we’ll see (and do) what it…
AWS

Amplify

Basel Anani / 2022-01-30
Over the last couple of days, I decided to take a bit of a dive into AWS’s Amplify service and see what exactly it had to offer in terms of creating and deploying a web-based application. As…
Go

Accept Interface, Return Concrete Type, But What About Slices?

Sharif Anani / 2022-01-23
One of Go’s commonly known characteristics has long been the implicit satisfaction of interfaces. Implicitly satisfying interfaces can (and has been) useful in many situations, especially those…