Jean Barkhuysen | SWE at Netflix working on distributed media processing/storage. Former Googler working on distributed storage. Former surname de Klerk. This is my personal website. The views represented here are my own, and do not represent my employer.

Posts

Oct 23, 2025
Inlining function code
Oct 17, 2025
A jj script to lint your entire graph
Oct 6, 2025
A jj plugin for bash-it
Jun 10, 2025
Storing protobuf-generated Go code without a registry
Jun 10, 2025
Generating protobuf-generated Go code without a registry
Feb 26, 2025
Spock gripes
Jan 29, 2025
Running your own pkgsite
Dec 7, 2022
Engineering resources from Google
Dec 5, 2022
Interfaces in depth
May 5, 2022
Graceful degradation with the logistic function
Feb 9, 2022
Wrapped errors are stacks
Feb 8, 2022
Error unwrapping for library authors
Feb 24, 2021
Contexts and Structs
Oct 8, 2020
Stubbing gRPC in Go
Jul 7, 2020
Keeping Your Modules Compatible
Nov 23, 2019
Binary Search Tree Runtime Complexities
Nov 7, 2019
Go Modules: v2 and Beyond
Nov 5, 2019
Docker in Docker
Oct 23, 2019
Bad Times Initializing With Append
Sep 1, 2019
Reflecting on two years at Google
Sep 1, 2019
Reflecting on interviewing at Google
Aug 21, 2019
Migrating to Go Modules
Jun 8, 2019
Designing CRUD operations in Go
Apr 23, 2019
Resolving Problems From Modified Module Path
Feb 25, 2019
Multi-Module Repositories
Aug 20, 2018
gRPC on HTTP/2: Engineering a Robust, High Performance Protocol
Jul 21, 2018
HTTP/2: Smarter At Scale
Mar 3, 2018
Which protocol should I use?