TEtetraodonpuffer·Sep 1, 2025
Hah not sure about “production”, I am currently in between jobs and am taking advantage of that to work on a docker/k8s/file TUI log viewer.
I am using those techniques respectively for loading backups (I store each container log in a separate file inside a big zip file, which allows concurrent reading without unpacking) and for servicing the various log producing goroutines (which use the docker/k8s apis as well as fsnotify for files) since I allow creating “views” of containers that consequently need to aggregate in order. The TUI itself, using tview, runs in a separate goroutine at configurable fps reading from these buffers.
I have things mostly working, the latest significant refactoring was introducing the btree based reading after noticing the “fix the order” stalls were too bad, and I am planning to do a show hn when I’m finished.
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It has been a lot of fun going back to solo-dev greenfield stuff after many years of architecture focused work.
I definitely love golang but despite being careful and having access to great tools like rr and dlv in goland, it can get difficult sometimes to debug deadlocks sometimes especially when mixing channels and locks. I have found this library quite useful to chase down deadlocks in some scenarios https://github.com/sasha-s/go-deadlock