Joel Holmes

Joel Holmes is a software developer who has focused on building cloud-native applications. He has worked at several startups and has helped to architect, design, and develop new products and services to help those companies develop and grow. Along the way, he has been able to help establish tools and processes that have helped development and increased quality. He lives in Pittsburgh with his family and currently works at Thoro.ai building cloud applications in the growing robotics industry.

books by Joel Holmes

Shipping Go
  • June 2023
  • ISBN 9781617299506
  • 248 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / System Programming / Go

Shipping Go shows you how to build Go-specific software development pipelines. You’ll have a basic CI/CD process up and running by the time you finish Chapter 3, along with an iterative process for designing, releasing, and revising your applications. Then, you’ll systematically upgrade your pipeline to support containerization, integration testing, semantic versioning, and automated deployment. A set of handy appendices help you translate these valuable practices to Kotlin, Python, and JavaScript applications.

Refactoring to Rust
  • June 2025
  • ISBN 9781617299018
  • 304 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / System Programming / Rust

Refactoring to Rust shows you exactly where and how to integrate Rust surgically into applications written in another language. You’ll start by reviewing Rust’s unique syntax and concepts, with special emphasis on unique language features like variable lifetime and ownership. Then, you’ll learn to use Rust to wrap dangerous code, call standard and custom Rust libraries, and even use WASM to run Rust in the browser.