Practical unit-testing web client in Go

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Practical web client unit-testing in Go by mocking the server side, with examples from my first open-source project libvault
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How to share persistent storage volumes in Swarm

How to share persistent storage volumes in Swarm
Docker swarm is an orchestration tool, similar to Kubernetes, but simpler to set up and manage. It doesn’t come with a shared storage solution out of the box, so that is something you need to take care for yourself.
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How can Stackoverflow make you a better developer

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Improve your productivity, career, coding skills, and become a better developer
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If you don’t use a secret management tool, you’re doing it wrong

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Secrets management refers to the tools and methods for managing digital authentication credentials (secrets), including passwords, keys, APIs, and tokens for use in applications, services, privileged accounts, and other sensitive parts of the IT ecosystem. While secrets management is applicable across an entire enterprise, the terms secrets and secrets management are referred to more commonly in IT about DevOps environments, tools, and processes. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Go’s method receiver: Pointer vs Value

Go's method receiver: Pointer vs Value
The topic is large, and there is plenty of information online. This blog tries to keep it short and concise, and useful for experienced programmers that are new to Go. Coming to Go from Python introduced me to a new concept I didn’t have to put thought into. Python is a pass-by-object-reference language. You have no direct control over that. What this means is, when you pass an object (everything in Python is an object) to a function, you pass a reference to the object itself.
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