3 entries tagged "go" — 3 posts, 0 links.
Apr 30, 2026 — 8 min — Platform & AI
When a SaaS product should graduate from a flexible Python-first backend into Go, gRPC, Cloud Run, and Google Cloud service boundaries.
Outcome: Mapped a Go and gRPC adoption path for SaaS teams that need stronger service contracts, concurrency, latency discipline, and Google Cloud operations without premature rewrites.
Apr 27, 2026 — 13 min — Systems Notes
Why a Go retry loop ran forever because the attempt counter lived on the loop instead of the state, and what the runtime guarantees of Elixir, Swift, and Zig change about which state-machine idioms are honest in each.
Outcome: Reader can pick the right state-machine idiom for their language by recognizing which runtime guarantees the language ships, distinguish a true finite-state machine from unidirectional data flow, and avoid the cross-language mistake of treating one language's idiom as the universal pattern.
Apr 20, 2026 — 11 min — Platform & AI
Why a default Go parquet.Read[T] call slurped a 1.4 GB file into 11 GB of resident memory, and the column-native Rust and Go patterns that replaced it.
Outcome: Reader can pick the streaming Parquet read path in Rust and Go, configure the compression-codec features explicitly, and avoid the eager-load anti-patterns that look fine in benchmarks and break in production.