Blog Archive | Lanre Adelowo

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On actionable and actually useful logs

Responding to responses about my earlier thoughts on overlogging

JWT revocation

How to safely revoke JWTs without compromising user’s security

Database migrations in Golang

Implementing migrations in Go the sane way

Automagically build and deploy your Jekyll site with Drone CI

Continous integration to deploy static websites

Service discovery and loadbalancing with Consul and Fabio

Introduction to using consul for service registration

A custom split function for bufio#Scanner

Custom implementation of a buffered scanner

Managing configuration values in production sanely

Learn how not to leak production configurations. 12 factor configuration?

On composable interfaces in Go

Interfaces should ideally be small and focused. Learn how to make smaller and concised interfaces in Go

Musings on switching to Vim

So I switched fully to (Neo)vim, here is what I think

Diving deep into net/http : A look at http.RoundTripper

Learn how to perform some operations before a request is processed in Go

Isolating and mocking the database in Go tests

Mock the database in your Golang tests

Writing Expressive tests in Go with Ginkgo and Gomega

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) in Golang

On package names for Go tests

What package name do I give my Golang tests ?

Type safety or convenience

Exploring public API for your libraries: Convenience or type safety?

Middleware in Go

Understanding Golang’s Middleware.

Testing HTTP handlers in Go

An introduction to testing Golang’s web services

Getting started with HTTP in Go

The ultimate primer to understanding web development in Go

Testing packages integration with Laravel

How to test Laravel’s Service provider

Improving maintainability in Laravel apps

Tips on writing more maintainable code in Laravel

Extending the Gbowo library via plugins

How to extend the gbowo library for paystack

Elementary OS, beauty and the beast

A review of Elementary os

Never under estimate the power of a broken testsuite

Broken test suites don’t lie. They never do.

Build your own validation library

Building your own simple and reusable validation library in PHP

ATM Simulator in Ruby

So I have been taking a look at Ruby.

A subtle introduction to Mocking (2)

Mocking, Mocking? Are you mocking me?

An introduction to Mocking

An introduction to mocking

Note to self, KISS is a way of life

It all began when i decided to avoid all the ugly parts of my chosen framework, Laravel. Laravel “Facades”, global helper functions et al. Little did i know it was more than what meets the eyes.

On Development and Production environment parity

One of my favorite questions on Quora is What is a coder’s worst Nightmare.

Deploying PHP web apps with Capistrano

I only recently completed building a project i was extremely keen on

Building a simplistic MVC framework with AuraPHP and Twig

In my previous post, I discussed the benefits a template engine could bring to a project and why major frameworks have native support for them.

You really should be using a PHP template engine

Why you should use a template engine ( PHP )