My name is Benjamin Cane, and you've landed on my engineering blog. I have a background in distributed systems operations, architecture, and development. You will find articles about all sorts of topics like Docker, Linux, Go, Python, and lots more. I hope you enjoy the blog.
How to Structure a Go Command-Line Project
What is the best project structure for Go command-line applications? Where should packages go, and where should my application code start? Let's discuss a layout I have found useful....
Golang Maps vs. Structs, which method should you use to parse JSON
Should I use maps or structs to parse JSON in Go? Which is best? Which is safest? How about we find out?...
Don't mock Databases, just run them with Docker
Use Docker Compose to create on-demand databases within your local & build environments...
Using stunnel and TinyProxy to obfuscate HTTP traffic
Recently there has been a lot of coverage in both tech and non-tech news outlets about internet privacy and how to prevent snooping both from service providers and governments. In this article I am going to show one method of anonymizing internet traffic; using a TLS enabled HTTP/HTTPS Proxy. In this article we will walk through using stunnel to create a TLS tunnel with an instance of TinyProxy on the other side....
Using salt-ssh to install Salt
In recent articles I covered how I've built a Continuous Delivery pipeline for my blog. These articles talk about using Docker to build a container for my blog, using Travis CI to test and build that container, and finally using a Masterless SaltStack configuration to deploy the blog. Once setup, this pipeline enables me to publish new posts by simply managing them within a GitHub repository. The nice thing about this setup is that not only are blog posts managed hands-free....