Nicola Apicella articles - 33 total
Golang error updates
Since go 1.20, golang has improved the ergonomics of error handling. Noteworthy improvements...
What is a containerd snapshotter?
I have recently invested some time to understand how containerd works, in particular the containerd...
Your laptop is a distributed system
Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash When we think about distributed systems, we...
The API Gateway Impossibility (the story of an API migration)
API Gateway and DNS
How to monitor your system dependencies
A simple trick to publish metrics for all your dependencies
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Test Driven Development by Example
build a throttle function with TDD
How are docker images built? A look into the Linux overlay file-systems and the OCI specification
a practical guide to how container images are built
AWS Networking cheat-sheet - EIP, ENI, VPC, etc
A practical cheat-sheet for AWS Networking
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Linux terminals, tty, pty and shell - part 2
Demystifying Linux terminals
Linux terminals, tty, pty and shell
Demystifying Linux terminals
Improve documentation quality with Architectural decision records
Use ADR to document your architectural decisions
Poor man's kill switch for your demo applications
expose a public endpoint for a live demo, while giving you the peace of mind that in case of misuse, the api will kill the requests keeping your costs low.
Linux pipes in Golang
Writing a Golang program that gets the input from a Linux pipe as well as cli arguments.
DynamoDB or Aurora/RDS? Should we always use DynamoDB?
Is DynamoDB always the right choice?
AWS SQS - Deduplicating messages
patterns to deduplicate messages and process them once, no matter how many times the consumers receive them
Golang Patterns - Part 3
In this post I m going to show a cool pattern using golang channels: channels of channels. Channels...
Multi-language build tool?
looking for language agnostic - build tool
DynamoDB transactions
DynamoDB transaction
Containers from scratch in 18 lines of code
building a super simple container
Golang Patterns - Part 2
golang patterns
Saving time with contract testing
Speed up feedback loop with Contract tests
Golang Patterns - Part 1
golang patterns
Awesome a11y
web accessibility
Go for Java developers
golang and java lamdbas
Dependency injection and Reader Monad
If you are reading this article you are probably already familiar with dependency injection (DI for...