How My Bookstore Project Taught Me That APIs Don’t Always Tell the Same Story I’ve been building an online bookstore called Hearthside Reads – nothing fancy, j...
The Tools Backend Engineers Actually Need After auditing my scripts/ folder, I found the same operations repeating: - Find duplicates by key – e.g., “Are there...
Setup Directory bash mkdir -p tutorial cd tutorial Generate Sample Logs bash Generate logs inside the tutorial folder echo '2026-01-18 05:42:09 | INFO | system...
Overview This tutorial walks through the process of converting raw application logs into structured JSON data. The workflow is useful for generating test data...
Part 3 – JSON to Excel Excel Add‑in Welcome to part 3 of our JSON to Excel series! So far we’ve covered the introduction and the Web App. In this post we explo...
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Hey Go devs! If you’re building APIs or microservices, you’ve probably wrestled with data serialization—turning your structs into something that can zip across...
Overview This chapter from Designing Data‑Intensive Applications explores different database models and strategies for structuring application data. Understand...
Introduction With a different function and often a different package for almost every file format, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed—especially when juggling multi...
Using JSON as a configuration format is a mistake. Yes, a mistake. Not a preference. Not a style choice. An architectural mistake. That statement tends to bothe...
The Problem with “Document-First” Proposals We've been sending proposals the same way for 20 years: Word docs exported to PDFs. As developers and agency owners...
CUE – The Swiss‑Army Knife of File Generation and Literate Programming CUE is the tool you reach for when you need to: generate complex JSON, validate YAML, ma...
