TT || !TT aka To TAP or not to TAP

Ramblings on Tasks, async-await and ASP.NET. The slides from the meetup do contain common issues encountered when working with TPL, async-await and ASP.NET along with some good practices. These are off course not all. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks for attenting.

May 25, 2016 · 1 min · 46 words · Sotirios Mantziaris

New go event sourcing library named incata

Event sourcing is capturing all changes of an application state as a sequence of events. Since we only store events we only have to add events to a store, in contrast to updates for keeping the application state. A much simpler model that scales very well. When needing the application state we just aggregate the events into More on this can be read all over the internet but two excellent links are available below: ...

February 1, 2016 · 1 min · 119 words · Sotirios Mantziaris

Initial release of adaptlog

Almost every application logs data one way or another. There are a plethora of logging packages available for golang. There is the one that comes with the standard packages which takes a simple approach. There are many logging packages that follow the well established leveled approach, and there are really a lot of them. The decision of choosing a specific library comes with the cost of a direct dependency. But why should we depend directly on a specific package? How painful is it to exchange a logging package for another when we already created a lot of code with a direct dependency? This is the reason why apaptlog came to life. ...

January 20, 2016 · 1 min · 212 words · Sotirios Mantziaris

Setup a blog with Hugo and Github Pages

It was long my desire to write a blog with stuff that interests me. Lately i was studying Golang and i came across Hugo which is a really nice and fast site generation utility. This was a great opportunity to start my own blog by using Hugo and Github Pages in order to host it. Why? it’s free it’s Github it’s easy and fast This is a walk through on how you can have a blog easy, fast and free! Let’s start! The only thing you need is: ...

November 7, 2015 · 3 min · 508 words · Sotirios Mantziaris