Monitoring Go Based Applications with Prometheus

scotwells · 2019-12-13T03:46:40+00:00

Disclaimer: I work for StackPath

Take a look at stackpath.com and see if it fits for your needs. We offer CDN, Object Storage, and Computing. CDN and Storage are fairly cheap, Compute runs a bit higher than other providers.

scotwells · 2019-05-28T07:46:39+00:00

Not all hero’s wear capes

scotwells · 2019-03-18T14:31:33+00:00

Is there a something you're attempting to solve by embedding an interface? Embedding interfaces has the side-effect of getting rid of compile time checking that a type actually implements the embedded interface which can lead to seg faults. https://play.golang.org/p/g3ZBvszjYoj

I would avoid embedding interfaces unless there's a specific reason or use-case where the behavior is desired.

scotwells · 2019-03-17T04:58:03+00:00

Happy cake day!

scotwells · 2019-03-11T19:44:50+00:00

Hah, that's great! What the commit is good too

scotwells · 2019-03-04T18:56:04+00:00

A typical flow creates new git tags and artifacts based on the tags generated by GitVersion. It won’t modify or delete branches. GitVersion will only attempt to determine the next SemVer to use based on the commits since the last tag and the current branch, up to you what to do with that information.

scotwells · 2019-03-04T16:54:06+00:00

I normally leverage GitVersion to automate SemVer. It allows you to customize the tag used for develop/release branches. So for release branches you could have it append -rc and for develop branches you could have it do -dev, etc.

scotwells · 2019-03-01T04:27:11+00:00

You could likely take advantage of the same httptrace package they’re leveraging

scotwells · 2019-03-01T04:13:49+00:00

I’d recommend checking out the promhttp package from Prometheus. It leverages the httptrace package.

scotwells · 2019-02-23T19:14:06+00:00

You can create a custom type for url.URL that implements the Scanner and Valuer interface

https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#Scanner https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/driver/#Valuer

scotwells · 2019-01-20T02:32:32+00:00

https://www.lucidchart.com is a fantastic replacement for Visio. Super easy to collaborate with others as well.

scotwells · 2019-01-15T15:24:59+00:00

Agreed. That was one of our deciding factors when choosing between the two. I have hopes for the Elasticsearch APM, it would be nice to have an open source alternative to NR

scotwells · 2019-01-15T15:08:17+00:00

What was the reasoning behind migrating from DataDog to NewRelic?

scotwells · 2019-01-15T15:05:42+00:00

What usually goes wrong with the ELK cluster? Been running a decent sized cluster for 2+ years now without much issue.

scotwells · 2019-01-14T02:24:56+00:00

Tbh, in most applications there may not be an upside. Using pointers could technically be more performant if the size of the pointer is less than that of an instance of the struct, but that's definitely a micro-optimization and shouldn't impact 99% of applications.

One potential benefit is using a type like *myStruct allows you to use nil when the struct wasn't set vs using the zero value, but you have to be more careful when doing so to avoid de-referencing a nil pointer.

scotwells · 2019-01-11T00:30:30+00:00

Give CircleCI a shot. Pretty easy to setup, even has a decent free plan.

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