Link Roundup!

2026-06-15

encoding/json/v2: new API for encoding/json

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71497

It looks like the Go package encoding/json/v2 made the cut for the upcoming Go 1.27. I shouldn’t be excited over a JSON library but I’m pumped they’re solving the quadratic-nested-custom-type issue (even though it’s never been a problem for me in practice).

Kubernetes In Anger

https://samof76.space/kubernetes-in-anger.html

While some of this is EKS-specific, it’s still a good crash-course in orienting yourself to Kubernetes in production. I’m guessing if I weren’t using a managed-Kubernetes platform from a vendor I would want a longer list, but that’s not me.

Entitlements untangled: The modern way to software monetization

https://www.stigg.io/blog-posts/entitlements-untangled-the-modern-way-to-software-monetization

I don’t think I’ll actually use this contents, but I liked it because it proposes a separation between:

I’ve seen in my own enterprise-app-development job that it’s important to have a distinction between:

Sometimes product-positioning/messaging changes over time, and sometimes you need feature-flags for reasons unrelated to contracts, and it’s nice to have clear thinking about things.

I assume the author is trying to sell me something? But it’s still a good article.

What really matters in DynamoDB data modeling?

This blog series is a couple of years old, but is a good itroduction to AWS DynamoDB data-modeling (once you have a basic introduction to DynamoDB concepts):

One draw-back to these posts is that the author spends time tearing-down what seem to be “fads”/“trends” in DynamoDB data-modeling, which are a distraction for me because I’m new to the whole area.

The author has what looks like other good posts on DynamoDB that I haven’t read yet.