In this post, I will give a brief introduction about Google’s new open source project Service Weaver that lets you write your Go application as a modular monolith, which can be deployed it as either monolith or microservices. The source code of the example demo is available on github at…

In this post, I will provide a brief introduction to the NATS JetStream Key/Value Store using an example with Go programming language. If you’re using NATS ecosystem in your systems architecture, you can further leverage the Key/Value Store as a mechanism for a consistent key/value store for various use cases…

In this post, I will give an overview about how to write event-driven distributed systems in Go, with gRPC, NATS JetStream and CockroachDB. As a Go developer and a solutions architect, my favorite technologies include gRPC, NATS ecosystem and CockroachDB amongst several technologies. I will use these technologies to demonstrate…

In this post, I will give a brief introduction to NATS JetStream as a distributed event streaming system, which comes from the NATS ecosystem. In a nutshell, NATS JetStream is a distributed streaming system with publish/subscribe as the messaging pattern. When I introduce NATS to my clients in my consulting…

In this post, I will share my experience of working as a consulting solutions architect and a mentor on Go programming language and distributed systems architectures, in India, and I will also share some of my recommendations based on my experience, when you adopt Go in your organisations. I am…

I have been working as a consultant and trainer on Go programming language and distributed systems architectures, in India, and guided a lot of software development teams to adopt Go for building their systems. I have worked with product engineering start-ups, mid-size organisations and larger enterprises. Except working with some…

A lot of younger software engineers have been approaching me for taking my advice to become good software developers. My recommendations are very simple: The problems with many of the younger generations of software engineers are that they emphasize more into learning programming languages and frameworks, and excited to learning…

In this post, I will give an introduction to Go kit, a toolkit for building microservices in Go. This post is an introductory post on Go kit as part of a series of blog posts on it, and the source code of examples are available from here: https://github.com/shijuvar/gokit-examples Go has…

Update on 16-May-2022: This post has been updated with a new post Building Event-Driven Distributed Systems in Go with gRPC, NATS JetStream and CockroachDB In this post, I will demonstrate a simple Event Sourcing/CQRS Example in Go to demonstrate how to solve the practical challenges of Microservices based distributed systems…