Alexander Ertli articles - 9 total
The Real Job of a Developer Isn’t What You Think
Technology. Some grew up breathing it. Others had to catch up later. Either way—we're all in now.
“Fake It Till You Make It” vs. Building Real Tech
A story about resisting shortcuts, the curse of knowledge, and why real tech takes patience
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Behold the Modular Monolith: The Architecture Balancing...
From a Simple Ollama Client to 26k LOC
A journey from a small Go snippet to a large modular codebase — lessons learned, philosophy, and what's next.
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Everyone Is Wrong About SQLite Shayan ・ Jun 26 ...
Sagas to the Rescue: The Perils of Partial Success
How to handle partial failures without letting a simple timeout spawn a distributed system nightmare
Scaling Go Tests with Smart Naming Conventions
How to organize and run Go tests efficiently by using naming conventions to separate unit, integration, and system tests for faster feedback and cleaner CI pipelines.
From GitHub Pages to GCP: Picking Your Web Infra Stack for Launch
A developer’s end-to-end guide to picking the right DNS, SSL, and hosting stack for launch – from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare to GCP.
Go & AES-GCM: A Security Deep Dive
Many Go AES-GCM examples look simple, but can hide critical flaws. This post uncovers the 'forbidden attack' of nonce reuse and why truly understanding nonces is key to secure encryption.