My name is Elton Minetto

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

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Productivity Tip – Never Go to Zero

While browsing YouTube, I came across this video titled “30 habits that (quietly) transformed my life,” where the author shares 30 habits he adopted that had a significant impact on his life. I recommend …

Go should be more opinionated

One of the perks of being a Google Developer Expert is the incredible opportunities it provides. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Robert Griesemer, co-creator of Go, in person, as well as Marc Dougherty, …

Creating an MCP Server Using Go

In November 2024, Anthropic published a blog post announcing what may be its most significant contribution to the AI ecosystem so far: the Model Context Protocol.

First impressions with the Turso database

Turso is one of those projects that you look at and think, “How has no one done something like this before?” I’ve been following the project since its launch, but only now have I been able to dedicate …

Getting Started with Encore.go

Encore.go has been on my radar for quite some time, when its beautiful website and examples caught my attention in a news article on Hacker News. But my excitement really increased after this post was published in …

Using CloudEvents in Go

Adopting an event-driven architecture (EDA) to increase scalability and reduce coupling between components/services is relatively common in complex environments.

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. Discovering new apps is something I love, so I can …

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. It seems trivial today, but we must remember that the technology used before was SOAP and its …
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