Over time an application becomes a living thing. When operating a running service, it's crucial to not only ask the question
Does the code being deployed work?
it's also crucial to ask
Can I safely deploy this change given the currently running version of my service?
This second question …
As features are added, changed or deleted, the data model used by an application usually changes as well. For most database-backed applications, this means migrations are needed.
With this in mind, the fundamental goal of database migrations:
The current database schema should match the currently running code.
However, achieving …
Building a web application in Go and using PostgreSQL as the database is a real joy. Both of these tools are produced by incredibly vibrant open source projects. These projects represent some of the best attributes of the open source movement. When used in combination, occasionally idioms from Go don't …
In a previous post, I described a use case for customer provided keys with Vault. One of the implications of this was the need for decryption after a bulk data export. In that post, I gave a concrete example of decrypting Vault ciphertext directly with a customer provided key. However …