Go
Building a Production-Ready Load Balancer in Go
22 min readLoad balancers are critical components in modern distributed systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and high availability. This guide walks through building a robust load …
Building a Lightweight Kafka Clone in Go: Architecture, Implementation, and Lessons
34 min readMessage brokers form the backbone of modern distributed systems, enabling loose coupling, asynchronous communication, and data streaming between services. Apache Kafka has emerged …
Building a High-Performance In-Memory Cache in Go: From Basics to Production
20 min readIn-memory caching is a fundamental technique for building high-performance applications. This guide walks through implementing a robust in-memory cache in Go, from basic concepts …
Building a High-Performance HTTP Router in Go from Scratch
14 min readHTTP routers are fundamental components of web applications, directing incoming requests to the appropriate handlers. While Go’s standard library provides a basic router with …
Benchmarking and Optimizing Go HTTP Routers: Performance Strategies
13 min readHTTP routers form the backbone of web applications, determining how quickly incoming requests are directed to appropriate handlers. As applications scale, router performance …
Cache Misses Are Killing Your Application: How to Benchmark and Optimize Cache Hit Ratios
15 min readWhen applications start slowing down, our instinct is often to throw more hardware at the problem or spend days optimizing database queries. However, one of the most significant …
Benchmarking MongoDB vs PostgreSQL with Go: A Practical Performance Comparison
24 min readWhen selecting a database for a production application, theoretical comparisons only get you so far. What matters is how the database performs with your specific workloads and …
Benchmarking Go HTTP Routers: Performance Comparison and Analysis
10 min readWhen building web applications or APIs in Go, choosing the right HTTP router can significantly impact performance, especially at scale. This article analyzes and compares the …