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Go, Cloud Foundry, BOSH, and other software adventures — written slowly, since 2012.

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Coffee-Driven Development

After test-driven, behaviour-driven and, in darker times, schedule-driven development, I distilled it all into one unified methodology.

2015.05.263 min

Hosting Go binaries on any Cloud Foundry installation — buildpacks, bootstrapping, and the parts the docs leave out.

2014.12.063 min

The last in the series of SockJS-go lessons learned, and why the third rewrite finally stuck.

2013.05.312 min

What a year of running the library taught me about goroutine lifetimes and the language itself.

2012.12.116 min

A WebSocket-like object for the browser, and what it takes to speak its protocol from a Go server.

2012.09.062 min

Recently I came across a programming language called Go. At first I was sceptical — why another language?

2012.06.284 min

Release engineering and lifecycle management for large distributed services, running on private vSphere infrastructure.