Weekly

What happened this week? My most fun work task this week has been to debug a service written in Kotlin. I got notified because one endpoint is throwing 500 with the sidenote that one never performed well. Turns out the data was fetched too many times and someone tried to make it more performant by making it run in parallel, like 30 times. That reminded me of Bill Kennedy’s workshop in Berlin this year I attended....

What happened this week? I finally kicked my butt and posted something on my blog. I’m not ready to tell you when I actually set it up. Work was tough at times. I’m deeply disappointed by Kotlin’s readability. After that, I appreciated Go even more. Or maybe it’s ugly code; I don’t know. The recording of my talk at GopherconEU in Berlin was released this week. I haven’t watched it yet because listening to my own voice gives me the shivers....