My name is Elton Minetto

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

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How to decide what to study?

You realize you’re getting old when they ask you for career tips. 🙂 Jokes aside, this is a subject that interests me a lot, and in these career conversations, a question often appears:

Using Golang stdlib interfaces

In this post, I’ll show you how to use two of the most exciting features of the Go language: its standard library (the stdlib in the title) and its interfaces.

Testing Generics in Go

It’s finally (almost) among us! Finally, after years of hearing that joke “what about Generics?” this long-awaited feature will be available in version 1.18 of the language, scheduled for release in …

Technical leadership: monitoring X autonomy

Looking at my career, I can say that I have more experience and theoretical background in matters related to technology, especially in the area of software development. This fact is due to having done a graduate degree …

An introduction to the AsyncAPI specification

If you develop or consume REST APIs, you have probably come across some documentation written according to the OpenAPI specification. It is the industry standard, although I prefer to document using API Blueprint :)

I am an AWS Community Builder

I started using AWS tools in mid-2008 when a local cloud provider left the startup where I was CTO (the late Drimio) down for more than 24 hours. Since then, AWS has always been my first choice as a cloud solutions …

Making technical decisions using RFCs

Teams need to make several important decisions in the software development process, from programming languages, architectures, processes, tools, etc. As the project and team grow, making these decisions becomes more …

Work-focused daily meeting

If you work as a software developer, you have probably participated in a daily meeting, daily scrum, or stand-up meeting (although this name lost sense during the pandemic since we’re all sitting in front of our …
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