Architecture

rdev-go-api-template: Production-ready Go API Scaffolder & CLI Generator

rdev-go-api-template 🚀 The Concept A unified Go development utility that functions simultaneously as a production-ready architectural blueprint and an…

[System Design] Uber RAMEN: How Ride-Hailing Apps Push Real-Time Notifications to Millions of Devices

The Problem: Pushing Instant Notifications to Millions of Devices Answer-first: Uber's RAMEN system maintains persistent gRPC bidirectional streams to…

package.json vs go.mod: Where Did the Version Field Go?

If you come to Go from JavaScript, one small thing surprises almost every developer. Open any package.json . Look near the top. It is always there: { …

The Thread Battle: Go Concurrency vs. Node.js Event Loop from First Principles

When building high-concurrency backend services, two ecosystems dominate the conversation: Node.js and Go (Golang). If you ask the internet how they h…

[System Design] Ride-Hailing Dispatch Algorithm: How Uber DISCO & Grab DispatchGym Match Drivers

Every time you tap "Book Ride," a system makes dozens of decisions in under two seconds: Which driver? What route? What's the real ETA? This article b…

Bulkhead Pattern - Go

Go Bulkhead Pattern — Complete Reference Table of Contents What is the Bulkhead Pattern Three Mechanisms HTTP Transport Parameters — Deep Dive Little'…

Struct Embedding in Go: Composition That Bites When You Reach for Inheritance

Book: The Complete Guide to Go Programming Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in G…

[System Design] GPS Location Ingestion at Scale: gRPC Streaming, MQTT & Kalman Filter in Ride-Hailing

The Challenge: Millions of Drivers, Every 4 Seconds Answer-first: Uber and Grab handle 1.25 million GPS write operations per second from ~5 million ac…

Building Dhrishti - Part 3: Testing on a Production Grade System

I was now done with the basic setup. However, during my time working at my startup, I have learnt to think about a project wearing multiple caps. One …

How to Build a Telegram Crypto Checkout in Go (And Avoid Going Insane with Manual Checks)

We've all built that one MVP. You know the flow: Your bot spits out a USDT address. You ask the customer to reply with a transaction hash or, worse, a…

Рецензия на книгу «Go: разработка приложений в микросервисной архитектуре»

Июнь — месяц рецензий на книги по языку Go в нашем блоге SSP SOFT. Сегодня разбираем книгу Юлии Поповой «Go: разработка приложений в микросервисной ар…

I built an autonomous SRE that lets an LLM diagnose incidents — but never touch a shell unsupervised

I built an autonomous SRE system where a local LLM diagnoses production incidents, proposes a fix, and a deterministic engine decides whether that fix…

What Building a Go PDF Engine Teaches You About Real Engineering

There is a class of projects that teaches you more about a language than any tutorial ever could. Building a PDF engine from scratch in Go is one of t…

How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?

Run ASP Classic on Linux, macOS and Windows

If you have ever found yourself searching for how to run ASP on Linux or trying to figure out how to containerize an old IIS-dependent application, yo…

Why Building a PDF Engine in Go Will Help You Understand Go Concepts Better

There is a class of projects that teaches you more about a language than any tutorial ever could. Building a PDF engine from scratch in Go is one of t…

Getting Started with Go: A Beginner's Journey

If you told me a few months ago that I would be obsessed with pointers, memory allocation, and low-level strings manipulation, I probably would have l…

The Landscape of Core Banking Developers: Building Financial Systems from Scratch

This post is the Executive Summary of my 8-part long-form series: * Learning Path to Become a Core Banking Developer ** originally published on my blo…

I built a Go microservices framework in 2017. Here's what 8 years of production taught it.

In 2017 I was maintaining a Node.js ecommerce server when a new project landed on my desk — an IoT platform for vehicle tracking devices. Thousands of…

В поисках баланса в backend-архитектуре

Размышление о backend‑архитектуре между двумя крайностями: академической чистотой и радикальным прагматизмом. На примере read/write path, CQ…

Normalizing DATEX II Across 30 European National Access Points

EU Directive 2010/40/EU mandates that every Member State operates a National Access Point (NAP) that publishes real-time traffic, safety, and multimod…

Why I Built a Lightweight Heroku Clone in Go?

If you are a developer, you probably have a graveyard of side projects. For years, the formula for launching these projects was simple: push to Heroku…

WebSocket Half-Open Connections and gRPC Gateway Discovery in Complex LAN WebRTC Systems

The target scenario is not consumer calling. It is closer to B2B institutional device fleets: many shared devices, long-running uptime, centralized op…

Resources for Learning to Build Technologies from Scratch with Go: Books and Free Online Courses

Introduction to Building Technologies from Scratch with Go Building technologies from scratch using Go is more than a learning exercise—it’s a gateway…

How I built an E2EE chat in Go + React (with AI agent support)

🚀 Try it now: Open the Arthas web app — create a room, share the code, chat with E2EE. No signup needed. TL;DR — Try It in 2 Minutes No signup require…

From Elasticsearch Bottlenecks to Weaviate: How We Built Fast Hybrid Search in Production

For years, Elasticsearch was one of those tools I would almost automatically reach for whenever a system needed search. And honestly, for many use cas…

The Go Dependency Blindspot: Why You’re Missing Major Upgrades (and How to Fix It)

Go’s module system is widely celebrated for its predictability, speed, and reproducibility. Through the implementation of Semantic Import Versioning (…

How I Built a Real-Time Fraud Detection System That Handles 71,000 RPS at p95 <6ms

How I Built a Real-Time Fraud Detection System That Handles 71,000 RPS at p95 &lt;6ms A deep dive into building Sentinel — an ML inference pipeline th…

I built a gRPC debugging proxy as my first serious Go project – here's what I learned

TL;DR: I built Loom , a transparent gRPC proxy that decodes traffic in real-time using Server Reflection. No .proto files needed. It gives you a brows…

FlameKit: An Open Source CLI for Codebase Risk Analysis

FlameKit: Analyze Git History to Find Technical Debt, Risky Files, and Refactoring Priorities ⭐ GitHub Repository: https://github.com/mrhujaifa/flamek…