Docker Multi-Arch Images, manifests & mquery

Putting aside the oft-quoted figures about growth, and number of images downloaded, 2017 was quite a year for Docker.  It culminated in the DockerCon Europe announcement in Copenhagen that the platform would natively support Kubernetes, and we are now starting to see the fruits of this shift in the Docker…

Controlling Blinkt! using Golang

In the previous article we looked at how I had become involved in an open source community project which centred around making available a Golang equivalent of Pimoroni's Python library.  In this post I wanted to demonstrate use of the Golang library by porting one of the Pimoroni examples. Solid…

Exploring NATS Message Queues with Docker & Go

What is NATS?The NATS website takes care of providing a simple description: NATS Server is a simple, high performance open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, and microservices architectures. The core of the product is written in golang with official and community clients available across a…