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Absolutely. Web development with Go and supporting some PHP and Python apps. Tech management understands and values developers. I typically spend less than 30 minutes a day in calls/standup with the rest of my time spent in active development. Most of our developers are remote, including myself. No after-hours availability requirements. How did I get here? Found the job online and applied.
+1 for macDown
maccy clipboard manager https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/README.md
Back end: Go
Front end: Go
Database: Postgres
Proxy+SSL: Caddy
Extremely fast, dead-simple to troubleshoot issues, and no javascript required.
Most users are mobile, so speed and reliability are the priorities. This setup works well and it's simple to notice when there are any issues or any non-2xx responses to any server or database calls.
I feel you. I left $BIGCO a few years ago. Here's what we're doing.
For databases, we seriously considered cockroach, but went with postgres. For source control, we use self-hosted gitlab.
For CI/CD, we use Go and bash exclusively. Our entire back-end/api is Go and we use Go templates on the front-end. Front-end is almost entirely straight html and css. There are handful of front-end javascript http calls if the customer has js enabled, but js is never required.
Auth uses jwt. The Go standard library makes it pretty easy. At $BIGCO, I did use Auth0, but it got very expensive.
We dont really need GraphQL, so that one's a no for us. For service metrics, we capture KPI data server-side and have an admin section/views for the business managers.
Our team is distributed - mostly US, but a few overseas. Slack for comms. Business managers and CTO prioritize support-tickets/feature-requests and they get assigned to developers. No formal sprints; just bundle features together into a release and test it.
+1 Things
Tracking aircraft within radio range and feeding data to ADSB Exchange and Flightaware.
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User toddmcleod and channel JustForFunc on YouTube.
Religiously. MacDown
+1
+1 for Joplin. The UI isn’t as polished as evernote, but it’s open source, unlimited devices, and no vendor lock-in.
+1 Blocking JS makes the web a much better experience.
There are several projects, but the largest is basically a very large specialized content platform. Many sites that have to be fast with no downtime - so Go, K8s, CockroachDB. We also have some machine learning (that's why we kept the Python). Also a few fun, small Raspberry Pi / GoBot things around the office.
New role is almost entirely Go. Some legacy Python.
Recently laid off at age 48. Less than a month later, had multiple offers with better compensation. Still in tech sector. Two years ago we switched from PHP to Go, which definitely helped.
I converted from PHP/Laravel to Go about two years ago. Performance is amazing. Plays well with k8s. There are several good frameworks, but I'm, so far, just using straight Go.
IoT integration is fabulous - see https://gobot.io
A Tour of Go https://tour.golang.org
Todd McLeod on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCElzlyMtkoXaO3kFa5HL0Xw
Go by example https://gobyexample.com/
Go Documentation https://golang.org/doc/
50 Shades of Go: Common Mistakes for New Devs http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in...
Two Free Books http://www.golang-book.com/
Build Web Applications with Go https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang
Not really aimed at beginners, but Francesc Campoy's YouTube channel is really good. Just for Func. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BzFbxG2za3bp5NRRRXJSw
For more advanced topics, anything by Kelsey Hightower. There are several of his conference talks online.
NoSQL is good if you need flexibility in the data you store. So if you wanted to start collecting user's twitter handles, you could easily add that and then stop collecting them anytime. So some records would have twitter handles and some wouldn't. The table structure wouldn't have to change.
Also, MongoDB in particular has a geospatial data index. So if you were using location data and querying by location (e.g. what's nearby a user's location) that's a great feature. Not sure if other NoSQL solutions have that or if just Mongo.
There's a good JustForFunc episode on testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVFEV-ieeew
We use gitlab, but it's very developer-centric. For general use, maybe something like www.knowledgeowl.com
Swag is always good. Stickers are a given.
One conference I attended had a company handing out cards with a puzzle on it (encoded message). Decode the message and email it to them and they tell you to drop by their booth for a free t-shirt. Clever way of collecting email addresses for recruiting and they mention that they're hiring when you get the shirt. They never did spam me via email, so I didn't think it was too intrusive.