Golang

A Go service that consumes UK rail data from Kafka and persists it to PostgreSQL using table partitioning. Built with franz-go, it handles millions of daily messages while maintaining data consistency.

Few weeks ago I wrote about YAML configuration and why I believe they are the best of a bad bunch of formats.

Over the years, I’ve worked on a variety of systems, each with its own approach to configuration.

Recently, Andrew Cairns shared a post on Twitter/X featuring a shortened written version of his fantastic video, Composition over Inheritance Explained by Games.

Introducing yamlcfg, a new library designed to simplify YAML and Environment Variable configuration in Golang applications.

In an upcoming side project, I needed to encrypt and decrypt values stored in a SQLite database.

With the clickbait title out of the way, we can discuss why mocking may not be as crucial for Go testing as commonly perceived.

Practical guide to setting up automated deployments for Go applications using GitHub Actions and Fly.io, covering both staging and production pipelines with appropriate safety controls.

After nearly 10 years of working with Go, including over 6 of those years as a full-time Go developer, I’ve come to rely on a set of tools and libraries that have significantly boosted my productivity.

Checkout my previous article on how to use private Go modules in local development and GitHub Actions workflows here.