I'm a passionate software engineer with 20 years of professional experience; these days I'm mostly focusing on the backend of distributed systems, written primarily in Go and Rust. I also have a strong background in really low-level stuff, like real-time kernels for tiny embedded systems with 16KB RAM (e.g. check out…
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Initially I wanted to write articles on those two topics separately (mocking time and testing event loops), but during the process I realized that the things I want to talk about are too interrelated: when I need to mock time, it's usually to test some event loop with it, and when I test event loops, typically mocked…