Software – Clinton's Space

Building a Kafka Dev Environment

Posted on January 26, 2020July 28, 2020 by Clinton Bush

Why? Kafka can be used as the backbone for integrating microservices using event sourcing and CQRS. It’s a proven workhorse for pub/sub messaging, streaming data, and processing events in real time. If you’re not familiar with CQRS, it is an architecture pattern that describes using one model for writing data while using another for reading…

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Writing a Functional Testing Tool in Go (Part 2)

Posted on October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 by Clinton Bush

What’s the greatest feeling in the world for an open-source software developer? When your project is not only being used by other people, but other developers are contributing! With a first release 7 months ago, my project has a total of 24 releases in Github now. I am proud of the end result. New Problems to Solve Since my last post about Kosher, I’ve…

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Writing a Functional Testing Tool in Go (Part 1)

Posted on February 5, 2019October 5, 2019 by Clinton Bush

My next few entries are going to document my work on remaking a tool (that was originally written in Ruby) in Go. You are welcome to check out the original tool at https://github.com/CGIFederalInc/SimpliTest. I have named my project “Kosher” because it will execute scripts written in the Gherkin language. The original testing framework for…

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Go for Fun! (Part 2)

Posted on January 19, 2019October 5, 2019 by Clinton Bush

So glad you decided to keep reading! In the last article, I outlined some of the shortcomings in C and Java (missing native asynchronous support, lack of structs and bitfields in Java, lack of type-method associations in C). I also discussed some of the features I wish C, Java, and other languages didn’t have (forward function declarations, pure object-orientation,…

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Go for Fun! (Part 1)

Posted on January 18, 2019January 19, 2019 by Clinton Bush

Google has earned more than its fair share of public hate lately (granted, your stance may vary). But, I’ve recently found a new love for the company, especially three of its incredible employees: Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. If the title didn’t give it away, no doubt the massive name drop did; I’m talking about Golang.…

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