Blog Posts Written by Daniel

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  • Golang, 
  • Programming, 
  • Testing, 
  • gRPC

  Mocking the Universe: Two Techniques for Testing gRPC with Mocks

  At Rotational, we use gRPC quite a bit. It’s great for specifying network APIs, but can challenge us to find new ways to thoroughly test the code. Follow along with this post to learn two ways of using mocking to test gRPC services!

  

  • Daniel Sollis

  Mar 28, 2023
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  • Distributed Systems

  Building a Raft (Part 3)

  In the third and final part of our series exploring the popular consensus algorithm we’ll finally explore how Raft handles leader election, and in doing so discover how Raft is so incredibly resilient.

  

  • Daniel Sollis

  Feb 14, 2023
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  • Distributed Systems

  Building a Raft (Part 2)

  In our first installment on how to implement the famous Raft algorithm, we introduced the log: an ordered sequence of operations that serves as the core data structure for distributed consensus. In this second part, we’ll demonstrate …

  

  • Daniel Sollis

  Jan 10, 2023
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  • Distributed Systems

  Building a Raft (Part 1)

  With all the blockchain breaches and social media escapades, there’s been an awful lot of buzz about distributed systems lately. But how many of us really understand how they work? Let’s dive in together…

  

  • Daniel Sollis

  Dec 19, 2022
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  • Serialization

  Choosing Serialization Formats in Go

  Serialization format is an often-overlooked engineering step that could make your application as slow as a turtle or as speedy as a cheetah!

  

  • Daniel Sollis, 
  • Danielle Maxwell

  Dec 5, 2022
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  • Programming

  Getting Started With Tmux

  If you’re working in distributed systems, having a good terminal setup is pretty important! On MacOS iTerm2 is a popular choice. It has tabs, autocomplete, a built-in password manager and a fantastic screen splitting feature. If however …

  

  • Daniel Sollis

  Apr 15, 2022

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