This edition
My dashcam records road trips as hundreds of 1 minute MP4 clips. A recent 9 hour road trip across Western Canada produced 540 tiny files and inspired me to create a timelapse video. That’s far too many clips for any video editor to handle so I built a tool in Go to turn them into timelapses automatically.
This started as a simple ffmpeg wrapper but after some nerding away it turned into a real world coding problem: I needed to validate all 540 video files, detect trip boundaries from the metadata, and orchestrate a multi-stage processing pipeline, ideally without taking a full 30 minutes to run.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Past editions
A step by step guide for introducing concurrency into an application by using goroutines and spinning out multiple deployments. Shown through the lens of how a coffee shop goes from tiny one person operation to a huge conglomerate. Friendly for all levels of programming and Go experience.
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