Go

If you maintain an open source project, you’ve probably wondered: who’s actually contributing? Are we retaining contributors or burning through a revolving door? Is one person carrying the whole project? These questions matter. Commercial platforms answer these questions well. They do come with trade-offs though. Hosted analytics means sending your potentially private repo contributor data to a third party. Pricing models often assume enterprise budgets. And for a maintainer running a project with a handful of repos and no funding, the friction of setting up yet another SaaS integration is enough to never bother. ...

I wanted to use the now generally available Cloud Spanner database to write an app that would track stock prices and social media sentiment to identify potential correlation. To test even the validity of this approach I put together a Go app that subscribes to Twitter stream for all companies defined in the Stocks table and scores each event against the Google NLP API while comparing the user sentiment against the stock ask price against Yahoo API. ...

As part of my ramp up on Google APIs I wanted to create a project that would allow me some practical exercise in a context of a real application. TFeel (short for Twitter Feeling) is a simple sentiment analyses over tweeter data for specific Twitter search terms using Google Cloud services: ...

Over the holidays, as many of us do, I embarked on a little extra-curriculum development effort I called thingz.io. I was driven by the pattern I’d observed in Data Center (DC) monitoring products; although that pattern also exists in many of today’s Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. ...