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1// whoami
2const dev = {
3 focus: ["backend", "systems", "devops", "hardware"],
4 current: "deep diving into distributed systems",
5 philosophy: "understand the 'why' before the 'how'"
6};
7
8console.log(`> building: ${dev.current}`);Latest Posts
PINNEDThe context Package: How Go Manages Cancellation Across Goroutines
From done channels to context trees. How Go's context package solves cancellation propagation, deadline management, and request-scoped data across concurrent call graphs.
April 14, 2026From git push to a Running Pod: nobody is orchestrating anything
The image never reaches the API server. What reaches it is a few hundred bytes of YAML. Tracing the real path from a commit to a process inside a container — a chain of independent loops, none of which knows the others exist.
August 27, 2026Go's HTTP Connection Pool: The Key Is the Server, Not the Endpoint
I thought I understood net/http's connection pool. Then I found out the pool key ignores the path entirely, and that my own Transport config had silently turned off HTTP/2. Three discoveries, measured with httptrace.
August 18, 2026singleflight: How Go Collapses Duplicate Calls Under a Thundering Herd
When a hot cache key expires, N concurrent requests all miss and slam the same expensive query at once. golang.org/x/sync/singleflight collapses them into a single execution. Here's the problem it solves and exactly how it works inside.
July 3, 2026WAL Internals
What really happens when you INSERT a row in Postgres. The WAL, dirty pages, checkpointing, LSNs, replication slots, and how all of this connects to CDC and Debezium.
April 5, 2026