I'm Jahvon, a software engineer passionate about building cloud-native backends and developer platforms.
You'll find me diving into Go projects, engineering Kubernetes platforms, and crafting tools to make systems more efficient and reliable. Beyond the tech stack, I'm passionate about using technology for positive impact across mission-driven organizations. Based in Boston and perpetually learning, I'm currently deepening my programming practice at the Recurse Center.
An update on my journey tackling developer tool chaos with a personal automation platform. 6 weeks of building desktop apps, cryptographic vaults, and feature planning at Recurse Center.
A few months back, I worked through VictoriaMetrics’ Go concurrency series and wanted to get some practice. So I implemented a few distributed systems, work distribution patterns to see how the concurrency patterns translate. Work distribution is fundamental to building scalable systems - you need ways to spread processing across multiple components while coordinating the results. Go’s goroutines and channels map well to distributed system concepts - channels as service communication, goroutines as system components, WaitGroups for coordination. Here’s what I learned. ...
Over the last couple of years, I have been having fun experimenting with ways to streamline my developer experience. This may largely stem from my Developer Experience (DevX) focus as a software / platform engineer in the CarGurus DevX organization. (side note: Check out this blog post I wrote on how we supercharged the experience for our Product Engineers) However, the challenges that I face at work and on my side projects aren’t quite the same as the ones faced by CarGurus product engineers. I started to find myself drowning in a sea of scattered commands, scripts, and tools. This, combined with my desire to find opportunities to learn more about Go patterns and libraries in a low-risk way, motivated me to invest some free time developing an “integrated development platform” - or at least the foundations for one! ...