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
  • MEAP began January 2021
  • Last updated April 2025
  • Publication in July 2025 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781617299018
  • 300 pages (estimated)
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / System Programming / Rust

Refactoring to Rust teaches you to combine your favorite programming language with high-performance Rust code. Author Lily Mara introduces Rust in her easy-to-read style, clearly explaining the language's unique syntax and concepts. You’ll augment programs with Rust hands-on with approachable examples like solving FizzBuzz with Rust’s pattern matching and gaining enormous runtime speedups to Python code. When you’re done, you’ll have mastered techniques for building Rust plugins you can apply to all kinds of existing software, from games to data tools.