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API Clients for Humans

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.

Navigating the uncharted waters of SSL/TLS certificates and gRPC with Go

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.

Control packet flow with TCP_NODELAY in Go

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.

Test Driven Advent of Code

By now most of you have probably heard of Advent of Code. If not, go check it out. I’ll give you a few moments…

Benchmark Surprises

I love a good mystery. If you really want my undivided attention, present me with a program which does a thing, and also a proof that it can’t possibly do that thing.

Building a global services network using Go, QUIC and Micro

Over the past 6 months we at Micro have been hard at work developing a global service network to build, share and collaborate on microservices.