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February 2, 2019February 2, 2019

How to specify a zeroed UUID in MySQL

Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash Working on a recent project that dealt with data synchronization across disparate systems, I realized I could not use the oh-so-easy INT for primary keys. Instead I chose to use the emerging best practice of employing UUIDs for distributed databases. However, the library functions in Go are not friendly …

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January 5, 2019February 2, 2019

PHP delegation vs. GoLang type embedding

PHP implements composition (vs. inheritance) of object class properties and methods to other classes using delegation. Go on the other hand implements composition with type embedding. Read this post to learn about the differences and to appreciate the benefits of Go’s approach compared to that of PHP.