Test the Slash Command again from within Slack.Change our Slack application so that it points to the new Elastic Beanstalk server.Migrate our existing code so that it runs on Elastic Beanstalk.Migrate to AWS by creating a new Elastic Beanstalk-based application.Test the Slash Command from within Slack.Point the new Slack application to the application that is running on the local server.Create a new Slack application that has a Slash Command.Change the code so it uses the Go-based Slack API to support a Slack Slash Command.Run the application using a local tunnel.Make the application run in a web server.

Create a console-based Go program that gets the price of a stock.

So I figured that I could combine the two for my first application in Go The source code to this project can be found here I have been spending an increasing amount of time in Slack, and I come from the world of finance.

I always like to write something useful when I learn about new technologies. The nice thing about Golang is the support for writing multi-threaded applications. I started life way back when as a C programmer, and with Golang, I feel that I have come full-circle. I kept hearing that Go is a great language for writing distributed systems, and I certainly have written my fair share of distributed systems. One of the languages that I have been meaning to teach myself in Golang. I can also stumble around in Python and Scala. I am pretty good at C#, Java, C++, and NodeJS/TypeScript. So, as I wind my way down the TODO list, I figure that I would start documenting some of my learnings so that it might be of use to others.Įven though I have been a Chief Architect and CTO for the last 15 years, I have still kept myself very technical, and I still code for pleasure, and occasionally, for my CTO as a Service clients. Not having full-time management duties frees up your time, and every day, I find that there is so much more to learn. Since leaving the corporate workforce and starting CTO as a Service, I have been slowly learning some things that have been on my TODO list for a while.

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