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6 February 2025 · 17 min read
OpenTelemetry: A Guide to Observability with Go
Modern applications are often complex, distributed systems. Debugging them is not fun: you have to follow requests across services, logs get lost, and metrics are often hard to correlate. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack - except the haystack is on fire, and the needle keeps moving. This is where OpenTelemetry (OTel) can help.
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6 December 2022 · 4 min read
Concurrency in Go: Goroutines, Channels, Mutexes, and More
A beginner's guide to Golang's tools and methods for creating concurrent programs.
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27 July 2021 · 5 min read
How to Read Firestore Events with Cloud Functions and Golang
Learn how I used Golang and Cloud Functions to Read Firestore events published to the Cloud by my Raspberry Pi.
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