A distributed task queue architecture diagram showing brokers, workers, and persistent storage layers.

Build a Distributed Task Queue From Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Signals Senior Systems Skill

A hands-on guide to building a distributed task queue from scratch — covering persistence, retry logic, dead letter queues, and a web dashboard — as a portfolio project that signals real systems engineering ability.

September 16, 2026 · 12 min · 2399 words · martinuke0
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Building a User Safety Microservice: A Hands‑On Guide

A practical guide to building a user safety microservice that validates and filters input, with runnable Go code and Docker.

September 15, 2026 · 3 min · 631 words · martinuke0
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Building 'safe.': A User Safety Pipeline That Signals Real Systems Skill

A hands-on guide to building ‘safe.’, a real-time content safety pipeline in Go. This project signals systems engineering, concurrency, and ML integration skills — exactly what hiring managers look for in senior roles.

September 14, 2026 · 14 min · 2853 words · martinuke0
A terminal dashboard showing real-time user safety metrics and anomaly alerts

User Safety: safe — A Hands-On Build Guide for a Systems-Level Side Project

A hands-on guide to building ‘safe,’ a user safety gateway in Go that demonstrates rate limiting, anomaly detection, and observability — skills hiring managers actively look for in senior systems roles.

September 13, 2026 · 12 min · 2537 words · martinuke0
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Building a Personal Portfolio API with Go, SQLite, and Docker

Learn to build a Go‑based portfolio API backed by SQLite, packaged with Docker, and wired to GitHub Actions for CI.

September 12, 2026 · 6 min · 1238 words · martinuke0
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