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There are a lot of myths and wrong assumptions about cryptography and security in general. It's common for people to misuse cryptographic primitives, a...

Writing web services requires a lot of effort and thinking to make them robust and performant. There’s a wide range of areas to look in order to improve the performance of our service.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that doubles are a specific implementation of mocks or other testing constructs that we use in testing.
Dummies, mocks, stubs, fakes, and spies ARE test doubles. Test double is the category of these test constructs. Over…

Most developers, at one point or another, have either built a web API or have been a consumer of one. An API client is a package that provides a set of tools that can be used to develop software that consumes a specific API.

How Beat managed to achieve lightning fast spatial queries.

This post explains how Bolt reduced time and configuration complexity for their CI & integration test pipelines.

There are different ways to establishing a secure TLS connection with Go and gRPC. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to manually provide the Server certificate to your gRPC client in order to encrypt the connection.

Sign in with Apple launched earlier this year. Developers can use it to have users log in using their Apple accounts. This post outlines validating the …

What is a container runtime shim? Why the shim is needed? How to use OCI container runtime (runc) in command line and from code.

ℹ️ This article is based on Go 1.13.

An overview of remote procedure calls in Go

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