The Scholarly Void
A quiet space for deliberate thought, long-form reading, and the slow accumulation of knowledge.
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The Six Things We Didn't Build: What the Framework Teaches
An inventory of gortex's six unbuilt directions, and the value of what a research project deliberately leaves out.
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OpenResty + Lua: An Old Choice, Reconsidered in the AI Era
nginx plus LuaJIT is old, but its clean syntax and tight, local closure turn out to be the right shape for AI-assisted work.
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The Security Middleware Suite: CORS / CSRF / JWT / Rate Limit / Binder
Body caps, CORS, CSRF, JWT, rate limiting, and log redaction, a whole suite consolidated at the framework layer.
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Getting Started with Jaeger: Distributed Tracing over OpenTelemetry
What Jaeger is, how OpenTelemetry acts as the common wire, how gortex's Tracer interface plugs in, swapping in Grafana, with a Docker quick start.
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Observability: Three-State Health Checks and a Tracing Abstraction
Three-state health maps to K8s probes; tracing depends on an interface, with OTel as an adapter.
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The WebSocket Hub: Go's Take on the Actor Model
A single-goroutine event loop where all state access goes through channels, communication instead of locks.
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Concurrent Counting and Resilience: Sharded Metrics and a Circuit Breaker
Sharding one lock into sixteen, atomic counters, a three-state breaker, and why channels are wrong here.