Concurrency on Ikwuka Okoye

Building a Concurrent TCP Server in Go: Connections, Deadlines, and Graceful Shutdown

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building a Concurrent TCP Server in Go: Connections, Deadlines, and Graceful Shutdown

TCP makes it possible to build extremely simple network services.

Open a listener. Accept a connection. Read bytes. Process them.

The complexity appears when the server has to do this for many clients at the same time while remaining responsive when clients become slow, disappear unexpectedly, or send data indefinitely.

That was one of the core engineering problems behind Strata-Log.

Building a High-Throughput TCP Server in Go

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When building a high-throughput backend service, it is easy to focus on the application protocol and overlook the network boundary underneath it.

Strata-Log takes the opposite approach.

The project uses raw TCP connections as its ingestion layer, making connection handling, timeouts, concurrency, and shutdown behavior explicit.

That creates a useful engineering environment for understanding what actually happens between a client sending data and a backend processing it.

Why Raw TCP?

Higher-level protocols and frameworks are valuable because they provide useful abstractions.

Designing Strata-Log: Architecture for a High-Throughput Distributed Log Engine

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building a log aggregation system looks deceptively simple at first.

Accept a connection, read some data, and write it somewhere.

The difficulty begins when the system has to do that thousands of times concurrently without allowing network traffic, memory allocation, disk I/O, or shutdown behavior to become bottlenecks.

That problem became the foundation for Strata-Log, an experimental high-throughput distributed log aggregation engine built in Go.

The project is deliberately focused on the lower layers of the system: TCP connections, concurrency, memory reuse, buffering, disk writes, and graceful shutdown.

Building a Circuit Breaker in Go

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building a Circuit Breaker in Go

A backend service does not operate in isolation.

Even a relatively simple HTTP handler may depend on databases, caches, authentication services, payment providers, internal APIs, or other microservices.

When one of those dependencies becomes unhealthy, repeatedly calling it can make the original problem much worse.

This is where the circuit breaker pattern becomes useful.

While building Flux-Gateway, I implemented a circuit breaker in Go to explore how a gateway can detect repeated upstream failures and stop sending traffic to a dependency that is already known to be unhealthy.

Building Strata-Log: Designing a High-Throughput Distributed Log Aggregator in Go

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building Strata-Log: Designing a High-Throughput Distributed Log Aggregator in Go

Log aggregation looks simple until the volume increases.

At low traffic levels, accepting a connection, reading log lines, and writing them to disk is straightforward. The problem changes when thousands of clients begin producing data concurrently and the system has to keep accepting connections without allowing slow storage operations to become a bottleneck.

Strata-Log started from that problem.

The goal was to build a high-throughput log aggregation engine in Go that could safely process large numbers of concurrent log streams over raw TCP while keeping memory usage predictable and the architecture understandable.