BY Colin Chartier
5 min read
Creating Google Docs with Go & NextJS
Over the past couple of weeks, we've been setting up a full-stack project using Go and NextJS. You can optionally read parts one and two, and view the starter code in this GitHub repository. What we'll be buildingRecapWe have this project structure: The directories frontend and backend each contain a ...
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BY Colin Chartier
5 min read
Using WebSockets with NextJS and Golang
In our last post, we set up a simple full-stack project with NextJS and Go. Collaborative webapps (aka real-time apps)Most apps use CRUD (create / read / update /delete) APIs - one where the frontend sends changes to the backend, but not vice-versa. That topic has been extensively covered by some ...
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BY Colin Chartier
5 min read
How to use NextJS with Golang
If you want a scalable, high-performance backend with a fast-loading frontend, this guide is for you. Let's introduce our technologies: Go is a backend language which has been tremendously popular since being launched by Google 10 years ago. It's simple to learn, has powerful concurrency primitives, and can deploy anywhere ...
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BY Colin Chartier
5 min read
Teleporting VMs across continents without downtime
I'm Colin, the co-founder of webapp.io. We make half a million VMs per year for DevOps and Production workloads. ...
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BY Zoya Feza
2 min read
B2B AI writing software serves 16,000 customers using webapp.io CI
Draft is a platform that pairs artificial intelligence with a marketplace of vetted writers to make creating content seamless and easy. Learn what the process of incorporating the webapp.io CI process was like, and tune into the thoughts of Draft's full stack engineer. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
3 min read
Vital production metrics and how to collect them
Metric aggregation tools measure and store numerical data to understand what is happening in production. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
4 min read
How to run end-to-end tests 10x faster with firecracker
Firecracker is the technology which powers Serverless, but it can be also be repurposed to run end-to-end tests quickly and cheaply. ...
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BY Colin Chartier
2 min read
How to open a tunnel into any pod or container with tcpserver and netcat
It's a common scenario: You want a port on your local computer to magically forward traffic to your pod/container (or vice-versa.) ...
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BY Lydia Zomparelli
2 min read
B2B Social Media Management: how Planable uses ephemeral environments to power creative collaboration
Planable is an end-to-end tool that makes content collaboration fast and painless for social teams. It powers creative collaboration for social media and is used by over 5,000 social teams at Hyundai, United Nations, Social Chain, and Syneos. ...
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4 min read
How to run end-to-end tests 10x faster with firecracker
Firecracker is the technology which powers Serverless, but it can be also be repurposed to run end-to-end tests quickly and cheaply. ...
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