Tag: go
Leased cloud machines: making a teardown guarantee observable
Renting a cloud machine is a single API call. Giving it back reliably took four months. This post follows horizon through three rewrites, the teardown layers that survived them, and the measurements that show whether the guarantee actually holds.
Terraform x Go: Challenges when interacting with Terraform through Go
Introduction In a recent project, some of my fellow students and I developed a basic hosting provider that allows a user to spin up Docker containers on a remote server, which is realized by using Terraform locally on the server. During this project, we developed a Go-based backend service that provided a REST API to…
Combining zerolog & Loki
Publish zerolog events to Loki in just a few lines of code.
IPFS: the InterPlanetary File System demystified
In this article we will explore IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System. IPFS is a system for storing and accessing files, websites and other kinds of data — just as the Web we enjoy using every day — but unlike the Web, IPFS is peer-to-peer based and automatically distributes its content across the network.