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In this blog post, I’ll describe my experience and first thoughts on the Athens project. This project is written in Go and we’re building a proxy for go modules. Even though I don’t know much about go modules, I was able to make my first contribution to the project. I really like this community since it’s very welcoming and friendly. Long story short, You don’t have to be super knowledgeable about the project to make contributions. You don’t have to be a Golang wizard. People in the community are ready to help and collaborate. I learned about vgo from Russ’s talk and I wanted to try it out. Since I was lazy and didn’t want to try it super early, I decided to try it after the Go 1.11 release. As I was learning about it, I came across Athens. ...

The simplest method to get up and running with AKS is via the azure CLI.You can find instructions to install it here. Once you have az setup, you can login via the az login command.After successfull authentication you are pretty much ready to create a managed kubernetes cluster(AKS) in Azure.AKS has not reached GA and is in preview now.Therefore you are limited to regions listed (here][https://github.com/Azure/AKS] resource group The first step is to create a resource group in any of the avialable regions. ...

The biggest project on GitHub right now, The best container orchestrator (personal opinion), These are some of the many adjectives used to describe kubernetes.Kubernetes is a container orchestrator which is built, keeping a tool called Borgmon as a reference.Google was running on container even before docker came into the world and borgmon was the software that was used inside Google to orchestrate these containers.Some smart people at Google started building kubernetes with the lessons they learned using borgmon.Google then donated kubernetes to CNCF and it became the first project to be incubated in CNCF.The project, as well as the community, grew substantially and It is where is at now. ...

People coding in Golang is familiar with the ‘GOPATH’ the place where all your packages live. package management in go has been heavily opinionated and there has been many tools which attempted to solve this problem like glide,godep to name a few. Now a tool called dep has been surfacing the go world for a while.Most go projects are now moving to dep.Let’s talk about using dep. It’s very simple to get started with dep.At root of your project, run this command ...

“Hello World” These two words are special to me. I see them when trying out new stuff and experimenting with It. Consider this as a “Hello World” post.This is the latest of my many attempts to put up a personal website and actualy maintain it.This time It’s different. I’m motivated that never before!. Let’s see, Let the game begin.