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How to Implement the Outbox Pattern in Go and PostgreSQL

Mar 19 · 13 min read · In event-driven systems, two things need to happen when you process a request: you need to save data to your database, and you need to publish an event to a message broker so other services know somet

How to Work with OpenAPI in Go

Feb 19, 2025 · 10 min read · Well-structured and well-documented APIs are a pleasure to work with. And nowadays the standard is OpenAPI, which comes with a good methodology for defining an API interface first, and only then constructing everything around it. This makes it easier...

Essential CLI/TUI Tools for Developers

Jan 28, 2025 · 11 min read · As developers, we spend a lot of time in our terminals. And there are tons of great CLI/TUI tools that can boost our productivity (as well as some that are just fun to use). From managing Git repositories and navigating file systems to monitoring sys...

Understanding the Language Server Protocol – Easier Code Editing Across Languages and Tools

Jan 8, 2025 · 5 min read · In the past, many code editors were built just for one specific language. To provide rich and smart code editing, tight integration between the editor and the language tooling was a must. On the other hand, there were (and still are) more general-pur...

How to Run Integration Tests with GitHub Service Containers

Jan 7, 2025 · 8 min read · Recently, I published an article about using Testcontainers to emulate external dependencies like a database and cache for backend integration tests. That article also explained the different ways of running the integration tests, environment scaffol...