Writing Code that Works

Go's Non Blocking Select Statement

Jun 17, 20234 min read

In the last blog post, I wrote about Go's channels with a demo of a data pipeline that buffers the input and flushes the buffer when it's full or...

Go's Non Blocking Select Statement

Unit Testing Go's Channels With the Time Component

May 29, 20238 min read

I used Java during most of my career, which had concurrency support from the early days. It allowed developers to start threads and synchronize access...

Unit Testing Go's Channels With the Time Component

How to Handle Overload

May 5, 20235 min read

In this post, I will be talking about my experience dealing with the overload of a software system. It is not based on the contents of the Google SRE...

Should You Use a Stateful Streaming Framework?

Apr 19, 20235 min read

With the rise of big data in the last decade the industry has adopted the tools to process it. In the past, data was often processed using batch jobs....

Go's Channels and Pointers

Apr 6, 20234 min read

Background I've used Java for most of my career and am used to the fact all objects are passed by reference, while all primitive types are passed by...