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May 18

Visual Regression Testing for CLIs with VHS

#go #cli #testing #tooling

4 min read

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May 17

Z3 Can Prove Your Cloud is Unsafe. It Can't Tell You Why.

#cloud #security #aws #go

8 min read

Bala Paranj

May 16

Proof, not prediction: where formal verification beats AI in cloud security

#security #aws #cloud #ai

9 min read

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May 15

Zero-cost abstractions in Go: deleting your way to better code

#go #refactoring #architecture #security

4 min read

Bala Paranj

May 14

The $0 cloud infrastructure security stack

#security #aws #cloud #opensource

9 min read

Bala Paranj

May 13

Your Go Golden Tests Don't Need to Regenerate Everything

#go #testing #devops #productivity

5 min read

Bala Paranj

May 12

9 Go Performance Patterns That Don't Need a Profiler to Find

#go #programming #performance #cli

8 min read

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May 11

Two Problems, Two Tools: Why AI-Assisted Scanning and Configuration Verification Solve Different Things

#cloud #security #ai #aws

10 min read

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May 10

go:embed in a CLI: Schemas, Controls, Templates, and Pack Registries

#go #programming #cli #architecture

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4 min read

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May 9

Your Private API is Currently Safe. One Developer Change Away From Unsafe.

#security #aws #cloud #appsec

8 min read

Bala Paranj

May 8

Global State in Go: 5 Kinds We Found, 3 We Eliminated, 2 We Kept

#go #programming #refactoring #architecture

6 min read

Bala Paranj

May 7

The dog that didn't bark: finding security holes in what's missing, not what's misconfigured

#security #aws #cloud #devops

7 min read

Bala Paranj

May 6

Fuzz Testing a Go Security CLI: 8 Targets that Found What Unit Tests Missed

#go #testing #security #programming

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8 min read

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May 5

Functions vs Methods in Go: 6 Decision Criteria With Code Examples

#go #programming #architecture #refactoring

7 min read

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May 4

Stop Indenting — 6 Patterns for Flattening Nested if/else in Go

#go #programming #refactoring

8 min read

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May 3

7 Filesystem Attacks Your Go CLI is Vulnerable To — And How to Fix Them

#go #security #programming #cli

8 min read

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May 2

5 Fat Structs We Split — And the Go Patterns That Replaced Them

#go #programming #refactoring #architecture

6 min read

Bala Paranj

May 1

5 Factory Patterns in Go That Aren't the Gang of Four

#go #programming #architecture #gof

7 min read

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Apr 30

Error Handling in a Go CLI That Security Researchers Trust

#go #programming #security #cli

8 min read

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Apr 29

Your Go Structs Are Leaking: 6 Encapsulation Fixes From a Security CLI

#go #programming #refactoring #oop

5 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 28

Every scanner checks what exists. Nobody checks what's missing

#security #aws #cloud #devops

10 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 27

Debugging theory solved our security triage problem

#go #security #development #architecture

6 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 26

The Airgap Test: Refactoring a Cobra CLI into a Library API

#go #architecture #refactoring #cli

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7 min read

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Apr 25

The Bucket You Deleted is Still in Your DNS: S3 Bucket Takeover at Bime

#aws #cybersecurity #networking #security

5 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 24

8.7 billion records leaked from one misconfigured cluster. Eight findings would have prevented it.

#aws #security #elasticsearch #cloud

7 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 23

Your security tool should tell users what to change, not just what's wrong

#go #security #testing #architecture

7 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 22

AWS patched the logging. Your data already left.

#aws #security #cloud #devops

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9 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 21

Design by Contract in Go: Panics, Preconditions, and checkContracts()

#go #programming #architecture #security

8 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 20

The Most Important Refactoring Was Deleting 500 Lines I Was Proud Of

#go #programming #refactoring #architecture

4 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 19

We Forgot defer — 6 Resource Leaks We Found During Refactoring

#go #programming #refactoring #cli

7 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 18

Value Objects, Entities, and Aggregates in Go — Without a Framework

#ddd #go #programming #architecture

6 min read

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Apr 17

Subdomain Takeover is Not Just Phishing: How Acronis Nearly Lost Authenticated API Access

#security #aws #cloud #appsec

6 min read

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Apr 16

8 Coupling and Cohesion Fixes That Made a Go CLI Navigable

#go #programming #refactoring #architecture

6 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 15

Compound Risk is a Bigger Problem Than Missing Checks

#aws #security #cloud #devops

5 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 14

Generate Terminal Recordings for Your CLI Docs Without Touching asciinema

#go #cli #documentation #devops

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3 min read

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Apr 14

Applying clig.dev to a Go CLI — With an Automated Compliance Test

#automation #cli #go #testing

8 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 12

5 Builder Patterns in Go — None of Them Are the Textbook Version

#architecture #go #softwareengineering #tutorial

8 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 11

4 Builder Patterns in Go That Aren't the Builder Pattern

#architecture #go #softwareengineering #tutorial

6 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 10

Boolean Blindness in Go: When true, false, true Tells You Nothing

#api #codequality #go #softwareengineering

6 min read

Bala Paranj

Apr 9

One Test File That Prevents All Architecture Regressions

4 min read

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Apr 8

Accept Interfaces, Return Structs: 5 Patterns From a Go CLI

#architecture #codequality #go #softwareengineering

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7 min read

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Apr 7

Designing Errors Out of Your Go CLI

#cli #codequality #design #go

5 min read

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Apr 6

Why the Capital One Breach Wasn't About One Misconfiguration

#aws #cloud #cybersecurity #security

5 min read

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