Tag: go

All the articles with the tag "go".

• Building a scalable real time leaderboard

  Updated: 14 Nov, 2025 |  at  10:42 PM

  Describing my journey of building the leaderboard, what I learnt, what issues I faced, and some design decisions (which will be elaborated on later).

• Backpressure in Distributed Systems

  Updated: 23 Jul, 2026 |  at  05:30 AM

  Understanding what it is, how to deal with it, where it's used and how I handled it in the real time leaderboard.

• Broadcasting to 28K SSE Clients (and learning about Go channels)

  Updated: 23 Jul, 2026 |  at  05:30 AM

  A post on progressively getting my server to 28k SSE connections, finding a bug in my implementation of fan out using Go channels and the resulting mental model update.

• Designing a minimal, local-first version of lichess.

  Published: 10 May, 2025 |  at  08:52 PM

  How I'm planning to build tinychess, and what I've learnt so far while preparing to build it.