Go language is getting increasingly popular when it comes to writing microservices and commmand-line tools. It easily lets you compile a complicated application into a single binary, it can cross-compile from any OS to any other OS the Go compiler supports. Read More →

I have been craving to write about this since this is what I have been up to lately at work. I spent quite some time investigating the state of instance provisioning on each cloud provider and I thought I could share these here. Read More →

Nearly two years ago I published my side project Docker.DotNet —an open source C#/.NET client library for the Docker Remote API. Ever since, many teams and critical products at Microsoft as well as outside Microsoft started to depend on this library. Read More →

dexec is a small Go library allowing you to run commands inside Docker containers as if you are running them locally using the os/exec package. Read More →

If you are coding with Go and using json.Decoder to deserialize a JSON payload, then you are probably signing up for unexpected outcomes. You should use json.Unmarshal instead. Read More →

I am honored to having written a foreword for Jeff Nickoloff’s new book, Docker in Action from Manning Publications. I made acquaintance with Jeff through his marvelous blog posts on Docker and microservices. Make sure you check out his book. Read More →

For the past month, I have been working on making docker-machine work on Azure using our azure-sdk-for-go. Read More →

Even for someone who does not care about Microsoft Azure at all, I think the “Virtual Machine Extensions” concept is something pretty darn interesting and other cloud providers do not have an equivalent. Read More →