Interactive Engineering & Architecture Teaching Lab
Golang · Kubernetes · Smart Home · Game EnginesDivineForge is an engineering lab and visual teaching platform by William (Weelau Cheong). We dissect production architectures across Golang, Kubernetes, Smart Home IoT, and Game Engines (Unity, Three.js, Phaser 4) — pairing technical essays with interactive animated HTML+SVG simulators.
Production Go from first principles: M:N goroutine scheduling, Fan-Out/Fan-In channel pipelines, zero-dependency net/http REST APIs, and Bubble Tea terminal UIs.
How clusters actually converge: etcd and Controller Manager loops, why bare Pods die, ReplicaSet self-healing, ClusterIP/Ingress routing, and 12-Factor storage.
Real-world home automation for Malaysian 240V Type-G homes: 2.4GHz Zigbee meshes vs WiFi congestion, no-neutral wall switch relays (SONOFF ZBMINIL2), and DIN-rail breakers.
Bridging distributed systems and real-time graphics: the 16.67ms frame budget, ECS vs Scene Graphs, GLSL shaders, Three.js WebGL visualizers, Unity DOTS, and Phaser 4.
Select an architecture instance below and click the state controls inside the diagram to simulate Pod crashes, Goroutine fan-out, Zigbee mesh hops, or 60FPS game engine loops:
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Deployment manages a ReplicaSet.Controller Manager detects actual < desired and schedules a replacement automatically.Service (ClusterIP) + readinessProbe ensures traffic only routes to healthy containers.ConfigMap and credentials via Secret mounts.PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) so data outlives pod restarts.Live and Switched Live.SONOFF ZBMINIL2 (no-neutral relay) or wireless Moes 4-Gang kinetic/battery switches.SONOFF MINIR4M adds local IPv6 Matter Multi-Admin across Google, Apple, and Home Assistant.How distributed systems engineers can master game building — dissecting the 16.67ms 60FPS frame loop, Scene Graphs vs ECS, shaders, and choosing between Three.js, Unity, and Phaser 4.
An interactive visual guide to how Kubernetes actually works — Control Plane reconciliation loops, why bare Pods die, how ReplicaSets self-heal, Service ClusterIP routing, and 12-Factor storage.
A practical guide to building interactive terminal applications in Go using the Bubble Tea framework and the Charm ecosystem.
A deep dive into Go's concurrency primitives — goroutine lifecycle, channel patterns, the select statement, and real-world idioms.
Building production-ready REST APIs using only Go's standard library — middleware, routing, JSON, and testing patterns.
My journey from standard AI assistants to Google's Jules, and why the async agent model changes everything for developer productivity.
Architecting a closed-loop agentic system using Azure, Palantir Foundry, and GitHub Copilot to automate parts of the development lifecycle with human-in-the-loop consultation.
Named principles that explain why software systems and organisations behave the way they do.