My name is Elton Minetto

I'm a software developer, teacher, speaker and writer


Must-have apps and services in 2024

This post is part of a tradition I started 10 years ago! Every now and then, I make a list of the apps and services I use on a daily basis and share them in these posts.

Introduction to TypeSpec

I’ll start this post with a bit of history. Back in the early 2010s, the buzz was the concepts of APIs and API-first.

Go is a platform

Thanks to the Google Developer Experts program, I had the opportunity to participate in Google I/O in Mountain View, California, in May this year.

Using test helpers in Go

Recently, in a code review, the great Cassio Botaro gave me a handy tip: refactor some tests to use the test helpers feature from the testing package.

Load testing using k6

In the previous post, we saw that there are different types of load tests and what their objectives and characteristics are.

Load Test Types

When we talk about “load testing,” perhaps the first thing that comes to mind is “sending traffic to the application until it cries.