My name is Elton Minetto

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

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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 …

Clean Architecture, 2 years later

UPDATE: This post is old and no longer reflects what I believe to be an ideal structure for a project. In 2023, I am using and recommending what my colleagues and I have described in this post.

Testing APIs in Golang using apitest

One advantage of the Go language is its standard library, which contains many useful features to develop modern applications, such as HTTP server and client, JSON parser, and tests. It is exactly this last point that I …

Profiling Golang applications using pprof

In the last few weeks, Codenation has been experiencing very significant growth. Confirming the sentence of the great Bruno Ghisi who says that “on the scale everything breaks”, features that always worked perfectly …
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