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2020 – My Year in Books 📚

I don’t think there has been a better year than 2020 to read. With most of us confined to our homes at some point during the year due to pandemic, books (and Netflix!) have become more popular than ever.

In this post, I’m reviewing all the books I have read in the year. Hopefully you’ll enjoy these quick reviews, plus I’ve also added a favorite quote from each.

In no particular order- let’s go!

SQL Injection and Preventing them in your Golang app

SQL injection!… Is it really a thing?

SQL injection is a code injection technique that is capable of destroying your database. It is a code injection technique, used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution. (e.g. to dump the database contents to the attacker)

Implementing transactions in PostgreSQL using Go lang database/sql package

Introduction

A transaction is a unit of work that you want to treat as “a whole.” It has to either happen in full or not at all. In Go lang, a transaction is essentially an object that reserves a connection to the database. You begin a transaction with a call to db.Begin() and close it with a commit() or rollback() method on the resulting Tx variable.

The Unicorn Project – Book Review

A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

Over a month ago, I read the book “The Phoenix Project” and published a review on my blog. The book was certainly amazing as it touched on so many important aspects of software development, DevOps and my own IT career. To my surprise, I found that the book also has a sequel “The Unicorn Project“.

Querying rows from PostgreSQL from Go lang project

Introduction

In the last post Updating/Deleting rows with Go, we learned to manipulate rows in PostgreSQL database in Go project using database/sql package that ships with Go, along with github.com/lib/pq Postgres driver. In this post, we’ll learn how to query rows i.e. SELECT

Updating and Deleting rows in PostgreSQL from Go lang project

Introduction

In the previous post Inserting records into a database with Go, we learned how to insert rows to PostgreSQL database from Go project using database/sql package that ships with Go, along with github.com/lib/pq Postgres driver. In this post, we’ll learn the remaining two DML (data manipulation language) operations i.e. UPDATE and DELETE.

Inserting rows in PostgreSQL db from Go lang project

Introduction

In the previous post Connecting to PostgreSQL from Go lang project, we learned how to connect to the PostgreSQL database from Go lang project using database/sql package that ships with Go, along with github.com/lib/pq Postgres driver. In this post, we’ll learn how to insert data (rows) in a PostgreSQL table.

Connecting to PostgreSQL from Go lang project

Introduction

The Go programming language, sometimes referred to as Go lang, is making strong gains in popularity. Chances are if you are a Go developer, you will have to interact with SQL at some point in your project. This blog post will show how to connect to a PostgreSQL database from Go using database/sql package.

My journey from DBA to DevOps

I’ve been working as a database engineer for over a decade, engineering enterprise data platforms. During the beginning of my career in early 2000, I chose the ‘safe’ path of being a DBA believing that relational systems being universal containers for storing critical data will never change. I started learning relational technologies like Oracle, MS-SQL, and eventually also learned Open Source systems including PostgreSQL & MySQL.

The Phoenix Project – Book Review

A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Some people are lucky to find books that changes their life. While I’m yet to find my life-changing novel, I do come across books that make me think, question my beliefs and push me to learn. The Project Phoenix is that book for me.