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A practical look at Tony Hoare’s CSP, why shared-memory concurrency becomes painful, and how Go turned an old computer science idea into goroutines and channels

A real-world story about GC pressure, JSON processing, network buffers, and how object pooling improved performance in a Sentry-like log processing system.

A production story about payment retries, duplicate requests, Redis, distributed locks, and how idempotency keys protect users from flaky networks.

A practical, production-minded guide to Go Modules, dependency management, project structure, vendoring, private modules, and publishing Go packages.

A practical, production-focused guide to using Go context correctly for cancellation, timeouts, request-scoped values, and avoiding goroutine leaks.

A practical, experience-based look at Go vs Python memory layout, allocation, garbage collection, cache locality, and streaming large files.

A senior backend engineer's field notes on lock contention, goroutine leaks, semaphores, pprof, and production-grade Go concurrency patterns.

A senior backend and infrastructure engineer's practical guide to running Docker Swarm in production: architecture, security, deployment strategy, observability

A senior developer's code-level walkthrough of Dirty Pipe, Page Cache, pipe buffers, splice(), and the tiny initialization bug that became a critical Linux vuln

A senior Go engineer's practical explanation of composition, embedding, interfaces, polymorphism, any vs interface{}, and why this model fits concurrent microse

A practical server hardening story from monitoring real internet bots, sensitive-path scans, SSH exposure, Docker isolation, and suspicious miner-like processes

A senior engineer's look at Smallpond, DuckDB, Quack, and why lightweight analytical systems may change how we build AI and data pipelines.

A practical, senior-level look at PID namespaces, PID 1, container isolation, process visibility, namespace identifiers, and the security mistakes that weaken i

What I learned while running a Linux-based container runtime from macOS using Lima, including mistakes around namespaces, cgroups, rootfs, architecture, and VM