In the ancient times, when I was coding mostly in Pascal – size did matter. People were using RAR to shave couple kilobytes from archives, and having 2mb executable was better then having 4mb executable file. In that beautiful time we used  UPX – I wasn’t aware that this project is still alive, and works nicely with binaries create bo go lang.

Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017
UPX 3.94        Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   May 12th 2017

File size Ratio Format Name
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11512772 -> 3547792 30.82% macho/amd64 main

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The goal was to read image dimensions from an image file. Pretty easy task with standard “ image ” library and DecodeConfig. The tricky part was – the file wasn’t completed – I had only the beginning of the file. I tried to decode headers by myself. I didn’t find an exact recipe in GO and found many people looking for correct answers in many languages.

AWS has extremely nice UI. But – with the time, you need to do something faster than just clicking via an interface. Sometimes you need to automate something (start/stop instances, make a backup. If you are wondering – there is a perfect time for CLI.

This time we are going to cook Apache (httpd 2.4), PHP 7.0 as a PHP-FPM . Instructions are pretty simple. You can just copy and paste command to get working stack in less then 15 minutes.

What you can learn from it? How to install Apache 2.4 and PHP 7, how to enable and opcache, and how to install HTTPS on your server, with purchasing SSL certificate.

It’s an extension of my previous article – how to create SWAP on EC2 instance.

This time, we are going to create separate volume.