If you’re an ML.NET user and looking to train your models on GPUs, you may find you have limited options that are easy to consume. If you happen to be on a desktop that can support Nvidia GPU graphics cards you're in luck! If you happen to be on a…

Most of the projects I work with today have external dependencies of some sort. This could be a database, a cloud provider, or just another API that I need to talk to. It’s rare that I don’t have to communicate with something over a network in order to develop my…

Recently I was working on a side project and needed to switch over to another laptop to work. My project called for a Docker image that laptop #2, unfortunately, did not already have. I went to do a simple Docker pull and got the dreaded: Error response from daemon: Get…

With so many REST APIs floating around today, you’ll at some point find yourself in a situation where you need to call multiple endpoints to build a proper representation of your business object. This is not a difficult task, just create a new object, call the various APIs for data…

I wrote another article about this same topic which utilized a pure Docker solution to test database code without mocking. It was a cool solution, and worked really well, however it was a bit heavy-handed. It required special scripts, a certain folder structure, and could be hard to follow at…

Engineers these days have so many cool APIs to work with. You can literally find an API for a particular need with only a Google search. We have Twilio for sending emails/faxes/text messages, The Rundown for real-time sports scores and odds, or Airbnb to manage your listings. …

UPDATE: I’ve written a companion article using TestContainers, based on a comment that I should look into that package. It accomplishes the same goal, testing database code without mocks. You can read it here: https://atkinsonbg.medium.com/unit-test-sql-in-golang-without-mocking-using-testcontainers-go-postgres-docker-4f61574b1989 Recently while working on an API that interfaced with a database, I mistakenly updated our…

There have been many times in my career or when working on personal projects, that I have needed some open-source executables to help me complete my task. I have used things like Weasyprint, WKHTMLTOPDF, Exiftool, Ghostscript, the list goes on and on (these are just some of the more recent…

Usually, when I start out to learn something for the first time, I hit up the usual suspects: Pluralsight, Udemy, Linkedin Learning, etc. I really love learning programming topics via video training. For me, I find the instructors usually drop little tidbits of knowledge throughout the course, which is often…