Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

The right way to do data fixtures in Go

A safe, succinct test data fixtures pattern using sqlc and validator.

Profiling production for memory overruns + canonical log stats

Using Go’s runtime.MemStats and canonical log lines to isolate huge memory allocations to a specific endpoint.

Go's bytes.Buffer vs. strings.Builder

Taking five minutes to write a benchmark so I know which of these I should be reaching for first.

Postgres UUIDv7 + per-backend monotonicity

How Postgres’ v7 UUIDs are made monotonic, and why that’s a great feature.

Stripe V2

Stripe’s API got a new major version, and no one noticed.