Sayo Paul

Hello there, I am Sayo Paul 😁👏🏾.
Welcome to my space.
On here you would find stuff about software, startups, technology and life in general. I also use here to document solutions to problems I encounter whilst coding so I can always reference it if need be.
I am PASSIONATE about the cloud and believe that in the future our entire lives would be based on it.
Currently learning and doing as much as I can to be a part of that future !
AYBWL.

Working with the PostgreSQL JSONB column type in Golang using GORM

I recently had to do some work that required I store data in JSON into the database. The options I had available to use were PostgreSQL’s JSON or JSONB column data type. I chose JSONB because it is more recent and has some advantages over the JSON column type I used GORM as my ORM of choice on this project, so I had to find out if GORM had support for the JSONB type....

September 29, 2022 · 3 min · 581 words · Sayo Paul

Custom Formatting With bufio.Scanner() in Golang(Kubernetes API)

To get the runtime logs of an active project on Pipeops, I needed to fetch the pod logs from an AWS EKS cluster, using Kubernetes’ API. By default, the API only returns the most recent logs as of the time of the request. This meant that in order to have the logs updated, several calls had to be made. I pushed the logs to Google’s Firebase Cloud Firestore where the front-end read from to give the “real-time” feel....

September 8, 2022 · 5 min · 900 words · Sayo Paul

Thoughts on the Cloud Space, Predictions.

image source : Google Around this time a year ago, I went to a meetup where a long-time friend of mine who was in my city was speaking. He is a start-up founder and had a talk to give. After his talk, we got talking and he was excited to tell me about this idea. It was about a software platform that would abstract the complex processes involved in deploying applications to AWS, GCP, Azure etc....

September 7, 2022 · 4 min · 642 words · Sayo Paul

Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte - part 2

this article was originally published on Dev Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte II In the last article, we got introduced to web scraping and we looked into Goutte, a wonderful PHP web scraping library . In this article, we would be putting our knowledge to practice by scraping the website of the Punch . To be more specific, we would be scraping the punch to get the lastest news https://punchng....

December 28, 2018 · 3 min · 501 words · Sayo Paul

Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte

this article was originally published on Dev Web Scraping in PHP using Goutte Today I would be talking about something very common, Web Scraping. Depending on your needs or a client’s needs, situations may arise when you may need to extract data from a webpage. What is Web Scraping ? According to WebHarvy, Web Scraping (also termed Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting etc.) is a technique employed to extract large amounts of data from websites....

December 28, 2018 · 3 min · 563 words · Sayo Paul