Disable core dumps in #Linux

By | December 11, 2019

Systemd doesn’t completely control whether core dumps are made or not. It mainly determine where such dumps go, and whether they should take up space or not. It may prevent some user space core dumps, but not all. With “Storage=none”, they can still occur and are registered by journald, but they don’t take up disk… Read More »

Things worth reading: Some resources about Protocol Buffers in #golang and #gRPC

By | November 1, 2019

Looking around microservice communication protocols I discovered protocol buffers and gRPC as a new alternative to REST with XML or JSON. XML is used in standards like ISO 20022 for financial messages, JSON is widely used by all the new APIs in fintech (Stripe, TransferWise, lots of PSD2 API implementation of banks etc.) Both of… Read More »

Libraries #golang : Inter Planetary File System client

By | October 29, 2019

In all this talk of distributed systems the Interplanetary File System is a fun practical subject. Obviously golang should be part of that. According to Wikipedia: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file… Read More »

Connect to github with ssh key

By | October 28, 2019

This is a straight forward list of steps to connect to github with a ssh key instead of user/password. I am using Linux on my development machine so things are quite easy with ssh. STEP 1: Create a ssh key # ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “george@voina.org” STEP2: Add the key to the authentication… Read More »

Learning styles: Activist vs. Pragmatic vs. Reflector – What is your style?

By | October 28, 2019

Dear Reader, continuing the idea of the last post, you can find the characteristics of the other three learning styles developed by Honey and Mumford, based on Kolb’s theory in the following paragraphs. Activists You are an activist if you actually learn something by doing, by putting into practice. In other words, activists get their… Read More »