tldr; Working on an interesting golang tutorial using channels I came to a few helpful conclusions. Starting Out      The particular problem I was solving was a rock-paper-scissors game where I was trying to determine my opponent’s choice and make sure that I would beat them (see this) when we came to the ‘showdown’. There was one channel that was passed to both my ‘player’ function and my ‘opponent’, with which you could send and recieve a struct with a user id along with the choice made: 1-Rock, 2-Paper, and 3-Scissors. ... Read more...

tldr; Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has a great code/document repo service (Cloud Source Repository) that is free for 5 project/users month. Repositories      It goes without saying that if you work with code, or any type of document where you’d like to save versions, then having a code source control (github, gitlab, etc) or cloud storage service (box, dropbox, etc) is essential. One great feature of the GCP is the Cloud Source Repository service which is a hosted version control system. ... Read more...

tldr; In my opinion - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is outpacing other cloud IAAS/PAAS services in the race to be the premier provider. Background      I’ve used cloud PAAS providers both personally/professionally for the last 4 years in small scale consulting and personal projects and can attest that they live up to the hype. Easy to develop, deploy, and administer applications along with services. The offerings to be had continue to increase and diversify - all with an inversely correlated drop in price. ... Read more...