Beginners often overwhelm their brain with decisions and things they need to do. Which usually turns into a mess of trying to implement everything at once. Alternatively, programmers end up making very short-sighted decisions that end up becoming problematic later. The most important part of programming is that you cannot…

Why do we write programs in the first place? It’s easy to get lost in the technological details, but this is not the primary goal. This might sound obvious but, we need to provide value to people. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and…

I’ve been optimizing Go code for a while and trying to improve my benchmarking game. Let’s take a look at a simple example: func BenchmarkReport(b *testing.B) { runtime.GC() for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ { r := fmt.Sprintf("hello, world %d", 123) runtime.KeepAlive(r) } } Running go test -bench…

for Software Developers — I often get asked for recommendations. Here is a list of books and resources I vouch for because I’ve found them invaluable in my journey as a software engineer or have seen them greatly help others. If you’ve never coded before, then my main recommendation is: Learn Code The Hard…

There are many ways code could be structured. I was pondering a lot what is the best way. I rather reached an unsatisfying conclusion — depending on the situation one could be better than some other. Structuring code means to slice up the program in different ways for better comprehension. …

All the code can be found here https://github.com/egonelbre/exp/tree/master/fields On reddit there was a question: Before diving into answering it’s always useful to first dive into the question. It’s easy to lose track on what the actual problem is. …

Yesterday my frustration meter with Medium-s code editing finally hit the limit. The problem has been described in multiple places. Just to describe why I’m annoyed with it. First of all, there are quite a few ways of adding code to a Medium.com, …

I have seen quite a few questions on how to setup a basic server and database in Go. I’ll show few versions, with each one handling more variability and more complex situations. We are going to take a really small website, where you can submit comments and it will display…

This question was bothering me a long time. I mean there are often suggestions for readability such as, don’t mix business and database layer or don’t mix abstraction layers. On the surface, it seems like an easy question, and it looks like there are answers to that question: In object-oriented…