Your microservice is ready to ship to your Kubernetes cluster. It supports mutual TLS (mTLS) via x509 certificates. Perhaps you’re using SPIFFE and Spire to obtain your TLS certificates. You also want your service to be available from outside your cluster; and that’s OK because of the security provided via…

I continue to see questions like “Is Rust/Go/… object-oriented” answered with “No, because it doesn’t have inheritance”. This is my final word on this topic. TL;DR OOP exists to serve software engineering by facilitating good abstractions. This is achieved by making dependency inversion and polymorphism trivial. If a language makes dependency…

Support for channels in Go gives us the opportunity to compose code using pure functions — functions that take state and return state without side effects. From experience 3 signatures for these pure functions emerge: Simple Functions These functions don’t use channels as parameters, rather take and return standard data structures (structs…

Being a relatively new industry software engineering terminologies and analogies have come predominantly from civil engineering and manufacturing. Terms such as architecture, foundation, build, production, cycle time, lean… dominate. This strategy serves the purpose when talking to someone outside the profession by helping them relate; and stops us software engineers…