Redowan's Reflections

Recent writings

Testing Go CLIs with testscript · article
A tour of txtar · article
Type-safe slogging · article
Hoisting wire plumbing out of your Go handlers · article
Go quirks: function closures capturing mutable references · article
Accepted proposal: UUID in the Go standard library · shard
Peeking into Go struct tags · article
Error translation in Go services · article
Dynamo: Amazon's highly available key-value store · paper
Stacked log lines considered harmful · shard
What's the ideal dispatch mechanism? · shard
Background jobs and inherited file descriptors · shard
Testing unary gRPC services in Go · article
Repositories, transactions, and unit of work in Go · article
How do you handle transactions with the repository pattern? · shard
Is passing user ID through context an antipattern? · shard
What belongs in Go's context values? · shard
Do you need a repository layer on top of sqlc? · shard
Wrapping a gRPC client in Go · article
In praise of the etcd codebase · shard
Go errors: to wrap or not to wrap? · article
Mutate your locked state inside a closure · article
What canceled my Go context? · article
Structured concurrency & Go · article
Your Go tests probably don't need a mocking library · article
Tap compare testing for service migration · article
Splintered failure modes in Go · article
Re-exec testing Go subprocesses · article
Revisiting interface segregation in Go · article
Avoiding collisions in Go context keys · article