On May 30th, 2024, me and my friend/colleague Julien posted our first article on packagemain.tech which is a Substack newsletter where we want to share real world experiences and knowledge about Backend Development, Go, DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, Databases and more.

In some cases your application doesn’t need Redis, and internal in-memory map with locks and expiration will suffice. For example you already know the size of the map and you don’t need to store a lot of data.

Recently I’ve been motivated to learn more about functional programming and the name OCaml came up quite a few times. I have seen some praise about it from the people I follow on social media and decided to give it a try.

In the beginning at Solsten our engineering team focused on building products, tools, services but we never had the time to measure what was going on in our platform (it was an early-stage startup).

Do you know this feeling when you re-organize your room or house or move to a new place? It’s refreshing, isn’t it? You get a new energy, and it feels like you get more ideas in this updated environment.

Oh, log, a nerdy scribe, In you, all errors hide. To write it well - not an easy quest, Let's see how we can do it best!

Over the past few months, I saw a growing amount of posts on X about the Gleam language (probably the X algorithm doing its thing), and decided to give it a try.

Ebiten is an open source game library in Go for building 2D games that can be ran across multiple platforms. Ebiten games work on desktop, web browsers (through WebAssembly), as well as on Mobile and even on Nintendo Switch.

Logging is a very essential part of large software, it’s hard to overstate the importance of logging, be it performance metrics logging, error logging, or debug logging for troubleshooting later.

We live in the world where there are so many offerings of information in all possible formats: podcasts, videos, blogs, etc. But reading a good book is something that you’ll never regret.