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BACKEND ENGINEER — GO
There is no secret ingredient.
I've been writing Go since 2022, mostly on systems that aren't allowed to fall over. Away from the editor I train, work on my English, watch far too many films, and follow what happens around software as closely as the code itself.
- 5+ yrswriting backends
- 20 kmrunning every week
- 1 blogtech and everything else
ABOUT
I’m a Go developer. I build distributed backends — Kubernetes, Kafka and RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, S3 — mostly on systems with a high SLA, where downtime is something that gets counted and explained. Outside of work I keep a steady queue of my own projects.
Before that I led the messaging and notification domain at a marketing platform delivering to tens of millions of recipients a day, and I started out doing computer-vision R&D in Python and C++.
From my perspective, there’s no decision that’s simply correct. Every choice buys something and costs something, and most of life is deciding which cost is acceptable this time.
So this is where I write about whatever I’m actually thinking about — technical or not.
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Kubernetes
- KEDA
- Docker
- gRPC
- NATS
- ClickHouse
- MongoDB
- S3
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Linux
- Python
NOTES
Two halves of the same notebook. Filter by what you came for.
What professions are in the safety zone?
If I had a son picking a university, here's what I'd point him toward — jobs AI will barely shift.
3 years of tracking personal financies
For the last three years, I've been tracking my income and expenses month by month
Train 11.5. Race 10.
My watch under-measured the distance and accidentally taught me something engineers already have a name for.
Your previous version is the competitor worth having
You compare your whole life with someone else's best thirty seconds.
Paying more to stay where you are
A Black Mirror episode about a subscription, and why it felt uncomfortably close to my own bills.
Why I run
Not about pace or calories — about the moment your brain tells you to stop and you don't.
Learning grows with immersion, not information
Three tiers of learning, and why the amount of content you consume is the wrong thing to measure.
Sometimes the best fix is removing the complex thing
A memory problem in a Go + cgo + GStreamer pipeline, and a fix that consisted of not having the pipeline.
I miss the bug that took all night
Debugging used to end in a particular kind of joy. Lately it ends in a prompt.
The statistic that changed how I think about careers
Two things people underestimate at the same time — and what the income distribution looks like when you put them side by side.
Knowledge used to be built out of disagreement
Millions of people now ask the same systems the same questions — and get remarkably similar answers.
Expertise, or the feeling of it
The Dunning–Kruger effect, and the question of which direction AI actually pushes people.
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OFF THE CLOCK
Films
Two or three a week. I keep a short list of the ones I rewatch, and occasionally that list turns into a note here.
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