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From Monolith to Microservices in Go — Without the Headaches

Breaking a monolith into microservices is often sold as a silver bullet. In practice, it’s a minefield — with broken deployments…

14h ago

From Monolith to Microservices in Go — Without the Headaches

14h ago

Go 1.24: The Silent War Between Simplicity and Power

Go has always been a language of restraint.

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Go 1.24: The Silent War Between Simplicity and Power

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Java 24: The Most Exciting Update Since Java 8?

When Java 8 launched, it fundamentally changed the way developers wrote Java. Lambdas, the Stream API, and Optional introduced…

5d ago

Java 24: The Most Exciting Update Since Java 8?

5d ago

We Tried to Scale Neo4j — Here’s What Worked, What Failed, and What We’d Never Do Again

Why We Took Neo4j Seriously

Jun 30

We Tried to Scale Neo4j — Here’s What Worked, What Failed, and What We’d Never Do Again

Jun 30

I Built a System That Understands Your App Better Than You Do — Using Neo4j, Claude, and a Few…

A graph-based codebase analyzer that breaks your app into nodes and lets you ask Claude natural language questions about your architecture.

Jun 26

I Built a System That Understands Your App Better Than You Do — Using Neo4j, Claude, and a Few…

Jun 26

From Complex Reactive Code to Clean Loom Threads: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you’ve ever stared at a deeply nested chain of flatMap, subscribe, and Schedulers.parallel(), wondering if debugging this mess is really…

Jun 25

From Complex Reactive Code to Clean Loom Threads: A Step-by-Step Guide

Jun 25

He Used Rust to Cut Latency by 80% — and Cut the Team by 100%

A close friend of mine used to work on a high-throughput analytics platform for a mid-sized adtech startup. The backend stack was what…

Jun 23

He Used Rust to Cut Latency by 80% — and Cut the Team by 100%

Jun 23

Part 2: Go Channels Are Not Lock-Free, Just Well-Hidden

In Part 1, we walked through what happens under the hood when you use <- in Go — from buffers and queues to goroutine parking. We saw how…

Jun 19

Part 2: Go Channels Are Not Lock-Free, Just Well-Hidden

Jun 19

The Low-Level Truth About Go Channels: What Happens Beneath <-

Go channels are one of the most elegant features of the language. With just a ch <- value or val := <-ch, you're able to synchronize…

Jun 17

The Low-Level Truth About Go Channels: What Happens Beneath <-

Jun 17

How Redis Helps Maintain Consistency in Distributed Systems

A few months back, we were scaling out a background job system. The architecture looked solid: multiple worker nodes, Redis as a task…

Jun 11

How Redis Helps Maintain Consistency in Distributed Systems

Jun 11

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The Latency Gambler

Tech critic exploring tools, systems & languages beyond hype. Also drawn to quiet minds—people who reach stillness without chasing fame.

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