What is in a String... In Go
Understanding how strings work in Go: memory management, immutability, and why every concatenation is an allocation, with practical patterns to fix it.
Saturday, February 28, 2026 Independent Writing
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Software, stories, and the world they're built in.
#performance
Redis
Redis is fast because it's simple: in-memory, single-threaded, and purpose-built. But its use cases are narrower than most engineers assume, and its durability tradeoffs are poorly understood.