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I’m a backend software engineer. I primarily work in Kubernetes, writing microservices in Go.

tidbits

Arbitrary bits of information I found useful

go

• layout packages by what they do, not by their abstract type
• use channels sparingly: write synchronous methods and allow the caller to make it async
• append modifies the underlying slice, you’ll only make this mistake once
• define interfaces where you use them
• make([]int, 5) has a length and capacity of 5. ([]int, 0,5) has a length of 0 and capacity of 5.
  append() will only do what you want with the latter
• don’t use init()
• TFBO (test, fix, benchmark, optimise)
• more CPU != more performance
  more CPU == more contention

git

• git reflog will save you when you mess up
• Keep your git history clean
  • git commit --fixup=<COMMITISH>
  • git rebase origin/main --autosquash

Reading

• proc.go - Go documentation is great, this describes the scheduler

• proposal: runtime/metrics: define a recommended set of metrics

• Cargo Cult Science - Richard Feynman

• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming

• Designing Data Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann

• Database Internals - Alex Petrov

• Efficient Go - Bartlomeij Plotka

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming

• The Art of Agile Development - James Shore, Shane Warden