08
Mar
Why performance isn't always the north star
I spend a lot of time thinking about performance. I use Cap'n Proto over Protobuf because parsing overhead
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20
Jan
What it actually means to be a senior engineer
Nobody told me what the job actually was when I became a senior engineer. I assumed it was mostly about
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10
Nov
Go generics in practice: what they're actually good for
Go generics landed in 1.18 and the community spent about six months either overclaiming or dismissing them. The reality
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15
Sep
Cap'n Proto vs Protobuf: why we switched
We'd been using Protobuf for years. It worked. Nobody complained. Then we started hitting the edges: schema migrations
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29
Jul
Apache Kafka: How It Actually Works
Most people encounter Kafka through job postings or architecture diagrams where it sits between everything. Someone always calls it a
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17
Apr
Ring Buffers vs. Double-Ended Linked Lists
Not every data structure decision needs a framework. Sometimes it's just: do I need a fixed-size, cache-friendly loop,
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14
Apr
Saga pattern
Saga Pattern
When dealing with distributed transactions, consistency is key. In the world of microservices, the Saga pattern emerges as
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13
Apr
WebSocket in Go
WebSocket Magic in Go
For those seeking to harness the power of WebSockets in Go, the "github.com/gorilla/
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13
Apr
WebSockets
When we first needed real-time updates in our app, we did what most teams do — we polled. Every two seconds,
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26
Feb
Story of our Kafka message loss
Background
About a month after we went live with our first Kafka-heavy design in Shopee, we were notified of missing
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