Building Boring, Reliable Go Services in Production
The software industry has a habit of celebrating novelty. New frameworks, new abstractions, new patterns, and new promises of developer productivity show up every few months. Production systems, however, rarely fail because they were not modern enough. They fail because they were difficult to reason about, fragile under stress, and painful to operate. Over time, I have become much less interested in clever backend services and much more interested in boring ones....