Rust's design of crates and modules, with the ability to have cyclic dependencies and organize modules as a tree within a crate, promotes the growth of large crates rather than encouraging the use of numerous reasonably-sized crates. In contrast, Go's design of packages and files, with acyclic depen.. read more  

Using time as a synchronization mechanism in programming can lead to flaky and unreliable code, causing tests, scripts, and applications to break randomly. Instead, it is recommended to use proper synchronization mechanisms like channels to ensure the desired state. To discourage the use of time.Sle.. read more  

After years of advocating for inheritance in programming, the author eventually realized the benefits of composition over inheritance, particularly in terms of code duplication and readability. They explain the differences between the two paradigms and provide examples to support their argument... read more  

The open-source GraphQL engine, graphql-go-tools, used by WunderGraph, experienced a significant performance difference when a customer routed a mutation through their gateway built on top of graphql-go-tools. While the mutation took around 1 minute when executed directly against their GraphQL serve.. read more  

Assembled, a company that has been using Golang as its exclusive backend language since 2018, has developed three abstractions to address the challenges of database access in Golang. These abstractions include an interface for sharing code between single- and multi-row getters, a helper method to ha.. read more  

Python has a library calledsorcerythat allows the implementation of per-scope finalizers similar to Go's defer statement. This library utilizes AST rewriting and live compilation techniques to achieve the desired behavior without the need for decorators or excessive indentation... read more  

How has data architecture evolved over time? How did we move from data warehouse to data fabric? Read the blog post to discover more!