tag: Developer Tools

Over the last few years there has been a push away from using machine identity for continuous integration (CI) agents, or runners, and instead use a more targeted, least privileged approach to authentication and authorization. This is where OIDC (OpenID Connect) comes in, which is a method of authentication used to bridge between the CI provider and cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. In this model the CI provider acts as an identity provider, issuing tokens to the CI runner/agent which include a set of claims identifying the owner, pipeline, workflow and job that is being executed. This is then used to authenticate with the cloud service, and access the resources that the pipeline, workflow and job require. ...

As a developer who works with Go in my day-to-day development, I constantly struggle with third party packages or tools which bring in a lot of dependencies. This is especially true when you’re trying to keep your project dependencies up to date, while dependabot, and other security software, is screaming about vulnerabilities in dependencies of dependencies. This is especially a problem with two common packages I use: Any HTTP adaptor package, which ships with integrations for multiple server packages, such as Gin, Echo, and others. Any package which uses docker to test with containers. Projects which include examples with their own dependencies. To break this cycle in my own projects, and packages I publish privately in work projects, I have adopted the use of Go workspaces, which allows me to create a monorepo broken up into multiple packages, and then publish one or more of these packages. ...

As a software developer, I have seen a lot of changes over the years, however few have been as drastic as the rise of artificial intelligence. There are a growing list of tools and services using this technology to help developers with day to day tasks, and speed up their work, however few of these tools help them understand how this technology works, and what it can do. So I wanted to share some of my own tips on how to get started with AI. ...