Golang
Building a GCP Secret Manager Emulator for Offline Integration Testing
reading time: 6 minutes
Needed offline GCP Secret Manager testing for CI/CD pipelines. Existing solutions were either too heavy or incomplete. Built a standalone gRPC emulator that works with the official Go SDK–zero credentials, zero network calls, 100% local.
Understanding Protocol Buffers: Part 1 - Introduction and Core Concepts
reading time: 12 minutes
Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is Google’s binary serialization format - smaller, faster, and type-safe compared to JSON. Learn what protobuf is, how it works, and when to use it for APIs and microservices.
From Shell Scripts to Go: Building a Multi-Vault Secret Management Library
reading time: 8 minutes
Started with Bitwarden-only shell scripts. Needed to support 1Password and pass without breaking anything. Built a shell abstraction layer, then ported it to Go. Same interface, three backends, zero breaking changes.
HTTP Error Handling in Go: Chi, Gin, and Echo
reading time: 5 minutes
Stop returning errors as plain text. Learn how to implement consistent, structured HTTP error responses in Go with support for Chi router, Gin framework, and Echo framework. Includes field-level validation and trace IDs.