Connecting To RabbitMQ In Golang

October 14, 2020

RabbitMQ is a message broker that’s great for pub-sub systems in a micro-services architecture. At my current day job, we use RabbitMQ in our data ingest pipeline. All the services are written in Go, and they all push data through hundreds of RabbitM...

Range Over Ticker In Go With Immediate First Tick

October 1, 2020

The Go standard library has a really cool type – Ticker. Tickers are used when you want to do something at a regular interval, similar to JavaScript’s setInterval. Here’s an example: package main import ( "fmt" "time" ) func main() { ti...

Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography

September 24, 2020

The post Achieving Data Integrity Using Cryptography appeared first on Qvault. Data integrity refers to the accuracy, legitimacy, and consistency of information in a system. When a message is sent, particularly using an untrusted medium, data integri...

Concurrency In Rust; Can It Stack Up Against Go’s Goroutines?

September 18, 2020

The post Concurrency In Rust; Can It Stack Up Against Go’s Goroutines? appeared first on Qvault. One of the primary goals of the Go programming language is to make concurrency simpler, faster, and more efficient. With Rust growing in popularity let’s...

Variable Shadowing In Rust – “Let” Is Immutable But Not Constant

September 8, 2020

The post Variable Shadowing In Rust – “Let” Is Immutable But Not Constant appeared first on Qvault. Let’s take a look at some of the common pitfalls with the keywords let and mut . Then, we will learn how immutable != constant by using variable shado...

Loops in Rust; Breaking From Nested Loops

September 4, 2020

Looping in Rust isn’t the same as standard C-style languages. The syntax is different and there are some powerful options that make looping easier. First, let’s go over some looping basics, then we will cover how to handle breaking and continuing in ...