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Database migration via Cloud SQL Proxy for Cloud SQL in Google Compute Engine VM
Database migration is kind of a critical bit when it comes to running and operating applications. In Golang, it is kind of appealing to rely on ORM (Object Relational Mapping) libraries.
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CORS with Golang Microservices and Elm Frontend is difficult
I am still building up my personal pet project: https://github.com/hairizuanbinnoorazman/slides-to-video; the aim of this project is a personal one - to build up a set of microservices that is able to be deployed in various ways such as locally via Docker Compose or even to Kubernetes or the serverless Cloud Run platform on Google Cloud Platform.
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Build Chat App with Golang Websocket and Elm Frontend
While building Elm based frontends, I decided to take the opportunity to learn on how to craft a chat application. Truthfully, I’ve never really built one before (nor do I need to).
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BMI Calculator
BMI or Body Mass Index is calculated by taking one’s weight (in kilogram) and divided by the square of the height of the person (in metres). You can utilize the following tool below to quickly calculate this.
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Elm Frontend in Hugo Static Site
To view the Elm component in action - scroll down to the Elm Component Demonstration section Motivation I wanted to learn to try to write a Frontend Application that provide some sort of dynamic functionality - e.
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Sending ggplot graphs to googleslides again
There was a change to the Google Slides API that resulted in an inability to upload images from Google Drive into Google Slides programmatically. Refer to the following issue on the rgoogleslides github repo - https://github.
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RGoogleslides - using your own account client id and secret
NOTE: BEFORE READING THIS - ALL SCREENSHOTS BELOW ARE TAKEN SOMETIME IN OCTOBER 2021. THE UI MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE - USE THIS AS A ROUGH GUIDE AND NOT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH
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App with Metrics, Logs and Distributed Traces
In a previous post, it details some information of how to setup some open source tooling to capture logs, retrieve metrics as well as capture distributed trace information from apps. The previous blog post would cover the setup of logging system which is Loki, distributed tracing system which is Tempo and metrics collection system which is Prometheus.
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Setting up Observability Tooling in GKE
Generally, most cloud providers come along with all the observability tooling that you need for your apps built-in with the platform. Some of the common observability tools such as logging, monitoring and nowadays, distributed tracing are usually made available and you can easily use said tools by reading up on the various documentation of how to setup each of these tooling.
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Using Envoy for GRPC Applications in Kubernetes
As of now, one of the common and easier way to have services communicate with each other would be over HTTP. In real world use cases, HTTPS is usually used (in order to ensure communications are secure) and this communication is done following some sort of REST framework.
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