Notes on engineering, product, and systems
Deep dives, learnings, and field notes from building software that has to hold up in thereal world.
What I Learned Building a Gateway Using Hexagonal (Onion) Architecture
The architectural lessons that finally clicked while building a gateway service dealing with constant external change.
Graceful Shutdowns in Go (Part 2): Waiting for Goroutines to Finish
Shutting down an HTTP server cleanly is only half the story. In this follow-up, I explore how to coordinate background goroutines during shutdown using sync.WaitGroup.
Graceful Shutdowns in Go (Part 1): A Deep Dive into Clean Exits
What I learned building a Go HTTP server that shuts down cleanly, covering signals, contexts, and a production-ready shutdown flow.