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.

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.

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.

When I say “testable code”, what I mean is code that can be easily programmatically verified. We can say that code is testable when we don’t have to change the code itself when we’re adding a unit test to it.

API clients are very helpful when you’re shipping your REST APIs to the public. And Go makes it easy, for you as a developer, as well as for your users, thanks to its idiomatic design and type system.

You may ask why doing this if we can use PersistentVolume? Though there may be multiple scenarios when mounting GCS bucket to you Kubernetes Pod is a good option: