Dominic St-Pierre's Blog

Data science and engineering teams at Open Data Group are polyglot by design: we like to choose the best tool for the task at hand. Most of the time, this means our services and components communicate through things like client libraries and RESTful APIs.…

All developers appreciate code that works, yet we spend much of our working hours debugging existing code. When fixing existing code, what our test failures communicate is paramount to the debugging experience we have.
That’s why in this article we will look…

When issuing queries to the database one of the challenges every developer faces is how to get the results quickly. If your queries are only returning a small number of records, eg. < 5, then yo…

open source training courses about distributed database and distributed systems - pingcap/talent-plan

open source training courses about distributed database and distributed systems - pingcap/talent-plan

PingCAP training courses. Contribute to pingcap/talent-plan development by creating an account on GitHub.

PingCAP training courses. Contribute to pingcap/talent-plan development by creating an account on GitHub.

A tutorial on automatically report internal errors in Go gRPC (micro)services.

Slackor is a remote access tool using Slack as a C2 channel. Learn more on this page.

I’m a big fan of Fathom Analytics. It’s the perfect alternative to Google Analytics and something I’ve been using since early 2018. One thing Fathom lacks is an official API which lead me to do some pretty crazy monkey patching in order to extract data from…

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are:
Continuous Improvement Project sustainability…

A suite of gRPC debugging tools. Like Fiddler/Charles but for gRPC. - bradleyjkemp/grpc-tools

tryhard finds and rewrites code suitable for try. Contribute to griesemer/tryhard development by creating an account on GitHub.

Open Source Freelancer

I've published an updated and re-edited version of this article on the Stack
Overflow blog - check it out
[https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/30/how-to-make-good-code-reviews-better/]!

I have been doing day to day code reviews for over a decade now. The…

On May 22nd, I received a message on twitter telling me that my blog was down. I tried to open the website on my phone and saw that it was in fact down. I was on my way to work and I had to wait until