Bartłomiej (Bartek) Płotka is a Senior Software Engineering Tech Lead at Google Cloud, expert in Observability, Go, Prometheus, and distributed systems, author of Efficient Go.
9 articles from this blog
A developer's journey to discovering and adopting lazygit, a powerful Git UI tool, and an exploration of its benefits for productivity and UX design.
Explores using Go 1.23's new iterators and coroutines to optimize in-process gRPC communication for efficiency and transparency.
A guide to using the benchstat tool for advanced Go benchmark analysis, including projections and comparisons across code versions.
A retrospective on organizing and running ThanosCon, a co-located event at KubeConEU 2024, focused on the Thanos open-source project for metrics.
Announcing the upcoming O'Reilly book 'Efficient Go,' a guide to writing performant and resource-efficient Go code for everyday development.
Explores the need for and methods of correlating different observability signals like metrics, logs, and traces for effective system monitoring.
Explores the Thanos project's extended Go style guide for writing high-quality, readable, and efficient code in large-scale distributed systems.
Introducing mdox, a CLI tool to automate and streamline software documentation processes, treating docs as code.
A guide to becoming a successful open-source project maintainer, focusing on soft skills, community management, and sustainable practices.
