Building a distributed job scheduler doesn’t require Kafka, Redis, or complex coordination protocols. For small-to-medium scale SaaS products, your database can handle the coordination. Here’s how to build one in Go.

A clickbait blog post claimed errors.Is() slows code by 3000%. The real lesson? The author misused sentinel errors for a non-error condition.

What you read about Google today is their polished answer to problems from a decade ago—problems you likely don’t have. Why take their medicine for a condition you probably never had?

Many companies proudly claim ‘our teams decide’. But when autonomy comes without accountability, who owns the failures? A look at why this trendy management style often creates a new kind of dysfunction—and leaves managers in an impossible position.

A young developer asked what’s changed in 30 years of software development. The answer: everything and nothing. We’ve traded assembly for JavaScript, deep understanding for fast results, and writing everything ourselves for assembling things we barely understand. But has the trade been worth it?