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ZEIT’s Now service is great for deploying apps and APIs that are able to make use of serverless execution models, and I use it for many of my projects (including this website, at the time of writing).
I recently needed to deploy a backend written in Go and kept running into problems when trying to read data from the HTTP request body. The client-side app I was developing to communicate with the backend is also written in Go and everything seemed to work fine when running the backend locally (using now dev), but the exact same requests failed when running it in production. The client’s request body was available when in development, but returned empty strings when running in production.
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about wrapping some of Weka’s classification functionality to allow it to be used programmatically in Python programs. A small project I’m currently working on at home is around taking some of the later research from my PhD work to see if it can be expressed and used as a simple web-app.
I began development in Go as I hadn’t yet spent much time working with the language. The research work involves using a Bayesian network classifier to help infer a tweet’s interestingness, and while Go machine-learning toolkits do exist, I wanted to use my existing models that were serialized in Java by Weka.