How to deploy Docker images on Microsoft Azure
There are several ways to deploy Docker images on Microsoft Azure. My favorite one is Azure App Service/Web Application for Containers. This is the closest to Google Cloud Run.
End-to-end testing of mobile apps
Google released a new version of the Google Auth library. It had a bug that broke Google Login on Android for API 26 and earlier. This impacted my small but popular Music Player app in Google Play. It reveals the […]
API backend should use dataloaders
Data Loaders allow transparent batching of requests to a data provider (e.g. database). More often than not, this leads to reduced latency and better performance without forcing an explicit batching of requests for the API users, for example, your frontend […]
Nillion
Recently, I came across Nillion‘s whitepaper. Nillion at its core is trying to be a new decentralized encrypted data-processing layer. Here’s how it works.
Generics in Go
Generics in Go were added about a year back in Go 1.18. In my experience they are great and they fix one of the biggest roadblocks in terms of writing reusable code in Go. I’ll illustrate that with an example. […]
Common pitfalls of GitHub Actions
If you create GitHub Actions via GitHub’s UI by going to the URL of the form https://github.com///actions/new, it provides templates for setting up the build. However, the template is broken. There are four problems with the default template
Inheritance in Go language
Go language does not have the concept of a class directly. It, however, has a concept of an interface as well as a struct. I’ll illustrate how this can be used to build most of the inheritance constructs that a […]
Bad and good ways to test code
Writing tests at an early-stage startup is always heatedly debated. If a function has one call, adding a unit test doubles the number of calls, this not only doubles the current work but even slows down future code changes 2X! […]
GraphQL vs gRPC
RPC calls allow one service to call functions in another service as if it is a part of the same service. And unlike a REST API, one gets strong type checking. The two services can even be in different languages. […]
Android uncaught exception handler and ANR
While trying to install a custom exception handler to catch uncaught exceptions (crashes), I ended up writing