Although we are living in a non-ideal world, that’s doesn’t mean we shouldn’t even bother to strive for the best of our capabilities to create an ideal world. The same thing with software engineering, there are some values that we should practice to improve ourselves and others. The thing is…

Benchmarking some popular PostgreSQL client libraries for Go to find the fastest one. Motivation Increasing RPS (request per second) is not an easy task. Changing your code to increase performance is even more challenging. There are several popular libraries out there, and almost every single one claims to be the fastest…

Setup log management using an open-source solution. Why Do We Need Log Management? Let’s say you're running your application on a dedicated server. Then a bug occurred on your application, you need to debug it, the first thing you reach out to is most probably will be the log file, you will be looking for the…

Benchmarking some popular Redis client libraries for Go to find the fastest one. Motivation Increasing RPS (request per second) is not an easy task. Changing your code to increase performance is even more challenging. There are several popular libraries out there, and almost every single one claims to be the fastest…

Why Fiber Web Framework? Fiber popularity rank is on the rise. Based on the latest benchmark it’s way faster than Echo. The biggest difference with Echo, that it uses fasthttp router instead of net/http. The benchmark graph above means the higher the value the better. It means that our HTTP router…

Why Gin Web Framework? Gin is one of the most popular frameworks for Go. It’s simple to use. Why Swagger Specification? Writing a specification is a meticulous process in Software Engineering. Regardless, it’s necessary if we want our API being used by others. It helps others to integrate without API with more ease. The better the documentation…

Moving on from serial id when inserting a new database record. In any database, we always need an identifier to differentiate one record from one another, commonly known as Primary Key. Now let’s say we want to create a table to record user information. …

Beginner guide on how to calculate maximum requests per second that a server can handle. One of the important part before creating a new service is called capacity planning. …

Introduction to N+1 Problem and how to avoid a common performance pitfall. What is the N+1 Problem? The N+1 query problem is a common performance antipattern which occurs when the code needs to load a bunch of children from a parent data in the one-to-many relation. Queries are executed for the parent record, then one…