Update your CRDs with confidence

Update your CRDs with confidence Hello. I would like to write about a release for crd-to-sample-yaml1. It’s the release version v0.8.02. This version brings with it a feature to test the validity of your CRD changes. It means that if you change your CRD it will test if the changes do not break working samples of that version. This is achieved by a helm unittest type of YAML based test scenarios and snapshot generation....

August 21, 2024 · 2 min · hannibal

Discoverable functional options pattern

Hello. Today’s will be a quick post. Everyone knows and loves/hates functional options1 in Go. The biggest gripe people get with it is, that the options aren’t discoverable and that there is no IDE support for nicely auto-completing options. My thought about this was that, what if we would just hang it on a struct? Let’s see how that looks. Consider this normal server builder with options: type Server struct { Name string Address string Port int } func WithName(name string) ServerOptFn { return func(s *Server) { s....

July 1, 2024 · 2 min · hannibal

crd-to-yaml now supports HTML as an output format

Hello! Just wanted to give an update to my crd-to-sample-yaml tool. It, now, supports creating a standalone HTML output. Why, you may ask? Well, now you can host the generated content as a static page on your website. That’s pretty handy. Here is a sample output: Go and get it while it’s hot in version v0.4.0. That’s all. Thanks for reading!

May 9, 2024 · 1 min · hannibal

Generic dig for map key using typed parameters

Generic dig for map key using typed parameters Hello! I was fiddling with a way of getting out values from a map that is of format map[string]any. But I wanted my type safety as well. This was coming from digging out keys from a Metadata field. The metadata was in a JSON format. This is what I came up with: / FetchValueFromMetadata fetches a key from a metadata if it exists....

February 27, 2024 · 2 min · hannibal

CRD to YAML as WASM website

CRD to YAML as WASM website A while ago, I wrote about Generating Sample YAML files from CRDs. It’s a tool I created that lives here. It has a front-end service as well for convenience. I wrote it in a traditional client-server manner. It’s running from a Docker Swarm container. But, as I was thinking about it, nothing in this service requires interaction with a server. It gets some user input, processes it, and has some output....

December 1, 2023 · 5 min · hannibal

How to deploy a Go (Golang) backend with a React frontend separately on Kubernetes - Part One

Intro Welcome. This is a longer post about how to deploy a Go backend with a React frontend on Kubernetes as separate entities. Instead of the usual compiled together single binary Go application, we are going to separate the two. Why? Because usually a React frontend is just a “static” SPA app with very little requirements in terms of resources, while the Go backend does most of the leg work, requiring a lot more resources....

July 23, 2020 · 14 min · hannibal

How to do a good code review

Intro Hi folks. This time, I would like to talk a little bit about code reviews. How do you do code reviews? Don’t hesitate to share it in the comments. How do I do code reviews? Well read on if you would like to know. The Top Down approach If I’m dealing with a small code change, a couple of lines here and there in the odd file first, I’ll try to understand why the review is there?...

May 11, 2020 · 6 min · hannibal

How to Make SPA refresh work with a Go backend

Intro Hi folks. Today I would like to share a quick “fix” for a problem I’ve seen popping up here and there. That is, if you have a react frontend which is a SPA app but you still want refresh to work. What do I mean by that? Consider the following… The problem You have a SPA app with a react router which navigates the user around. The app calls to a backend api which serves content of some kind....

February 17, 2020 · 4 min · hannibal

Summary of Practical Go workshop from Dave Cheney

Intro Hi folks. So there is this workshop from Dave Cheney. And I thought I’d draw a sort of summary of that workshop. Right-click->Open Image for higher resolution. Cheers, Gergely.

October 10, 2019 · 1 min · hannibal

Efferent and Afferent metrics in Go

Intro Hi folks! Today I would like to write about a metric that I read in a book called Clean Architecture from Robert Cecil Martin ( Uncle Bob ). Abstract The metrics I mean are Efferent and Afferent coupling in packages. So you, dear reader, don’t have to navigate away from this page, here are the descriptions pasted in: Afferent couplings (Ca): The number of classes in other packages that depend upon classes within the package is an indicator of the package’s responsibility....

April 21, 2019 · 6 min · hannibal