Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes Ep.4: Kubernetes Storage: Benchmarking ZFS, Cloud Disks, and Local Paths

Introduction: In Episode 4 of the Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes series, Jérôme Petazzoni benchmarks the performance of various Kubernetes storage classes, including cloud block storage, ZFS, and Rancher’s Local Path provisioner. This episode dives into the practical aspe...

Function types and single-method interfaces in Go

People love single-method interfaces (SMIs) in Go. They’re simple to implement and easy to reason about. The standard library is packed with SMIs like io.Reader, io.Writer, io.Closer, io.Seeker, and more. One cool thing about SMIs is that you don’t always need to crea...

Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results

What we learned from our 2024 H2 developer survey

Implementing Raft: Part 5 - Exactly-once delivery

This is Part 5 in a series of posts describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go. Here is a list of posts in the series: Part 0: Introduction Part 1: Elections Part 2: Commands and log replication Part 3: Persistence and optimizations...

Why you can't meditate

You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see how.

Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes Ep.3: Exploring Kubernetes Storage with OpenEBS and ZFS

Introduction: In Episode 3 of the Optimizing Databases on Kubernetes series, Jérôme Petazzoni introduces ZFS, a versatile file system renowned for its features like compression, deduplication, and snapshots. Leveraging ZFS with Kubernetes, Jérôme demonstrates how to create ef...

Some notes on "closed interfaces" in Go

A look back at Go's 2024

#​536 — December 17, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version 🎄 A mixed bag this week as we cover a few news items but then get into a 2024 roundup of Go news and the most clicked items of the year, in case you missed them at the time.We're taking a Christmas brea...

The Over-Engineering Pendulum

I used to picture my dream job as this: I work for an early-stage startup that recently raised a round. The business idea is promising, there’s much to build, everything seems possible, and we have time to prove the product-market fit. I join as the first engineer, lay the...

I think Go union type proposals should start with their objectives