Latest DevOps Articles
Latest DevOps Articles curated daily from around the web.
blog.boot.dev
Base64 vs Base58 Encoding
Base64 is one of the most popular encoding formats for representing data. Have some binary data? Base64 encodes it for convenient readability and parsing.
blog.boot.dev
Top Web Development Programming Languages; A Comparison
The software development industry is growing at a break-neck pace. Currently, there are close to 19 million software developers in the world, and this number is...
blog.boot.dev
Best Practices for Commenting Code
I often hear that we need more and better comments in the code we write. In my experience, we often need better comments, we rarely need more, and often we need...
Digital Ocean
Providing developers and businesses a reliable, easy-to-use cloud computing platform of virtual servers (Droplets), object storage ( Spaces), and more.
blog.boot.dev
How to Restart All Pods in a Kubernetes Namespace
Where I work, we use a repo-per-namespace setup and so it often happens that I want to restart all pods and deployments in a single Kubernetes namespace. Maybe...
blog.boot.dev
Top 6 Codecademy Alternatives
Learning to code in the digital age is a skill that will serve you well throughout your career and life in general. However, we’ve found that many get overwhelm...
blog.boot.dev
The Nuances of Constants in Go; Go Isn't JavaScript
Constants can be confusing and easy to misuse in Go if you are coming from an untyped language. Let’s take a look at some of the nuanced details of how they wor...
With #HacktoberFest being a thing, there has been an influx of devs desperately trying to contribute to their favorite Open-Source projects. Unfortunately, many...
We just launched our new “Intro to Functional Programming” course, and frankly, I’m a bit exhausted (more on that later). This course is an interactive code-in-...
So you want to hire a developer? Or maybe you just want to know what is going through the heads of employers like myself. Either way, let’s dive right into what...
I just released a package in Go that solves this problem. Check it out and give it a star here: go-password-validator. If you want to understand how it works, a...
blog.boot.dev
Top 4 Coding Languages To Learn For Beginners in 2022
Coding languages, tools, and frameworks are in a constant state of flux, improvement, deprecation, and popularity swings. Let’s take a look at the top 4 languag...
blog.boot.dev
Running Rust in the Browser with Web Assembly
I’ve recently been working on getting Rust support in the boot.dev app. In order to write a more engaging course, I want students to be able to write and execut...
blog.boot.dev
How to Structure a Golang Project
I lead a team that’s responsible for anywhere from 15-25 Go microservices at any given time. We’re constantly creating new services and libraries, so it’s becom...
blog.boot.dev
Education's Shameful State of the Art
Higher education had its problems before Covid-19. Now the crippling inefficiencies, backbreaking cost, and lack of alternatives are being forced into the spotl...
blog.boot.dev
How to Make a Simple Vue Custom Select Component
Creating a custom select tag with its own styling is notoriously difficult. Sometimes it’s impossible to build from scratch without a combination of styled divs...