Docker Best Practices: Optimizing Your Builds for Speed and Efficiency

Every day, we build a lot of docker images. You know everything; still, I listed some best practices for optimizing docker build that I follow in day-to-day development. By the way, many best practices are already mentioned on the Docker website. I will share what I do for Golang docker image building. It’s applicable almost … 

 

Github’s “repository not found” error and How to fix it

GitHub is an excellent platform for managing code repositories and collaborating with other developers. One of the great features of GitHub is Github Action, which automates your workflow for private and public repositories. However, recently, I noticed that GitHub Action is throwing an error while using GITHUB_TOKEN in the private repo. This issue is not … 

 

Inspect HTTP Request and Response in Golang

Golang is getting popular for writing a web applications. One of the core concepts of this web application is handling requests and responses. In Golang, net/http package from the standard library provides all HTTP requests and responses mechanisms.  As a developer, you often print this HTTP request or the response for debug purposes. net/http/httputil package … 

 

Build SQL update query for HTTP Patch request in Golang

It seems pretty straightforward to implement HTTP Patch request. The handler receives the request, unmarshals the body, validates the payload, sanitizes it and then sends it to persist layer for persisting into the Database. Let’s look into an example. For example, we are updating a user resource. type UserResource struct { FirstName string `json:”first_name,omitempty” db:”first_name”` … 

 

Upgrade to PHP 7.4 from PHP 7.2

This is the upgrade of my previous post . Previously, I showed how to upgrade to 7.2. Now, it’s time for one more jump to new version. The latest version of PHP comes with a couple of changes Arrow functions (Adds short closures) Preloading to improve performance Typed properties in classes Improved type variance The … 

 

Backup your Seagate Personal Cloud to pCloud

I was looking for a proper solution to take the backup of my Seagate Personal Clould (NAS server) to another cloud storage. It’s just an extra layer of backup in case any hazard occurs in my home. Seagate Personal cloud already has some built-in supports for well known cloud services likes Dropbox, One drive and … 

 

Logging with Winston in your Node.js application

Logging is an essential part of application.  According to Twelve-Factor App methodology it’s the XI factor of application development. A proper logging gives you a valuable insite of your application. In Node.js application, it is always suggested to use logging libraryrather than just using console.log  in productione environment. Log4js, Bunyan , and Winston are the …