Go Backend Engineering

Practical backend engineering in Go — middleware, architecture, reliability, and performance patterns used in production services.

What you’ll learn

Design clean middleware and service boundaries
Improve backend reliability and failure handling
Benchmark and tune performance where it matters

I Built happycontext: Wide Logging for Go with Router + Logger Adapters

A practical deep dive into happycontext, a Go wide-logging library that emits one structured event per request with support for slog, zap, zerolog, and net/http, gin, echo, and fiber integrations.

golang

Recreating PlanetScale's pg_strict in Rust: A Build Log

A detailed build log of cloning PlanetScale's pg_strict in Rust. From the pitfalls of sqlparser and executor hooks to the zero-overhead solution using Postgres' native post_parse_analyze_hook.

postgres

PostgreSQL UUIDv7: Native UUIDv7 vs Extensions and Benchmarks

Compare PostgreSQL 18 native UUIDv7 with custom UUIDv7, ULID, and TypeID implementations using real benchmark data, index locality tradeoffs, and practical primary-key recommendations.

postgres

Best Dockerfile for Golang, Optimize Your Dockerfile

Create best Dockerfile for Golang, optimize your Dockerfile for Golang and make it blazingly fast! 🔥

docker