AWS (Amazon Web Services) offers a pretty neat NoSQL database called DynamoDB. It is fast and it can scale, what more can you wish for? The thing is, as a developer you are still responsible for designing your tables in such a way, that you actually make appropriate use of the benefits DynamoDB has to offer. If you simply apply your knowledge gained using other databases, you might end up wasting money and performance.

Some time ago I forked a github project and published it on Bintray, so it could be used as a dependency by one of my other projects. Because publishing to Bintray was quite a hassle, I decided to take a look at GitHub Packages, which was released last year. My question was, would this be an easier way to publish a package and use it as dependency in another project? Let’s find out.

If you are using App Engine on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) you shouldn’t be too surprised when receiving an email stating the current version you are using is being deprecated. Chances are you haven’t read Google’s deprecation policy, which also applies to App Engine (listed here). which basically states that if Google decides to upgrade their services and deprecate older version, they can. And will. And you will be forced to follow along.

So of course, the email which came on June 27, 2019 should not have come as a surprise to you:

Hello Google App Engine Customer,

We’re writing to let you know that Go versions prior to 1.11 are no longer supported on App Engine, and new deployments using these language versions (1.6, 1.8, and 1.9) will not be available starting October 1, 2019.

This left about 3 months to upgrade.

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