My name is Elton Minetto

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

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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 …

JSON vs FlatBuffers vs Protocol Buffers

When we think about communication between services/microservices, the first option that comes to mind is good old JSON. And this is not without reason, as the format has advantages, such as:

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. Among the various talks I watched, one of my favorites was ‌ Boost …

Interesting projects using WebAssembly

This text is the last part of a series of posts I wrote about one of the technologies that have had the most impact on me in recent years: WebAssembly. In the first text, I discussed how to port Go code to run it in a …
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