Microservices or monolith? If you are still on the fence, this write-up might show you how to choose the right answer based on your project, team and their skills, budget and time constraints. As an added bonus, a look is also taken at the nanoservices: a fairly new phenomenon on the systems architecture landscape.

AWS CloudFormation now allows you to create your own custom resource types with the new Resource Provider Toolkit. This post walks you through the new toolkit's features and how to create your own custom resource type.

An example of how to use the export_test.go idiom to unit test a package wrapping AWS Athena.

Being a knowledge worker in a reasonably modern company affords you some privileges not every worker has — like working from home.

Developing reliable integration tests requires you to control every part of your execution environment, from the operating system up to the source code itself.

Amazon Textract was announced as a next-generation OCR service which not only performs word-based translation, but can also provide form and table value extractions.

A quick, no nonsense guide to getting started with Go Modules. I’m a fan of quick guides – just tell me what to do so I can start using it now. I don’t need an essay on why I should be using it or painful detail on the tool’s inner workings.