Thoughts on software engineering, infrastructure, and open source
Connection pooling is one of those things that seems straightforward until you hit production. Today I want to share some lessons learned from debugging a subtle connection leak in a high-traffic Go service.
After years of using Docker Compose for local development, I finally made the switch to Podman. Here is what convinced me and what surprised me along the way.
Cron jobs are fine, but systemd timers give you better logging, dependency management, and monitoring. Here is how to migrate your existing cron setup.