Curated articles, resources, tips and trends from the DevOps World.
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 overwhelmed trying to find the right platform, the perfect first language, the best framework, or the best online communities.
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 work in Go. It’s probably unsurprising, but Go’s constants are almost nothing like JavaScript’s bastardized version of the concept.
With #HacktoberFest being a thing, there has been an influx of devs desperately trying to contribute to their favorite Open-Source projects. Unfortunately, many of these pull requests have been a waste of time, with the maintainers ultimately unable to use the contributions.
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-the-browser course that teaches the basics of FP in JavaScript and PureScript.
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 think are best practices for hiring programmers.
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, and how to properly validate user passwords, read on.
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 languages for new programmers to learn in 2021. As it happens, we support all four of the top languages on the boot.
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 execute code right in the browser.
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 become important to streamline the project creation process.
Higher education had its problems before Covid-19. Now the crippling inefficiencies, backbreaking cost, and lack of alternatives are being forced into the spotlight. We’re working on what will eventually grow into the alternative to overpriced universities and ineffective Bootcamps at boot.dev.
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