CloudWatch is pretty cool, and looking at a metrics dashboard and setting up alarms is pretty badass—especially when you're not a full-time DevOps and don't have the time to worry about your monitoring solution in addition to the thing it's supposed to look after.

If you're running some of …

In the last part, we added fancy output code, and our output looks like this now:

...which, if you've ever seen a map, isn't what terrain actually looks like. The terrain around peaks tend to be at a similar height, and there is rarely the random patchwork of heights we …

In the last part, we refactored the code and added CLI flags. The output right now looks like this:

It doesn't really give us a sense of what the terrain looks like, though. Let's change that.

Unicode

Unicode has some nice characters that can help us here. The ones we're …

In the last part, we explored how to set up what was basically a matrix and randomly assign elevation values to it. In this part, I wanted to explore how to deal with assigning values to the elements adjacent to the peaks, and how to display the map to users …

I haven't gushed about Go much on this blog¹, but I thought of writing a small series of posts on a little piece of code I cooked up while I was supposed to be doing other, more important things².

Concept

So I was sitting there, zoning out and …