The Cost of Missing Context: Why I Built Crumbs

The “Context-Less” Error Problem It’s 2 AM. Your pager goes off. A microservice is failing in production, and the logs are flooded with a generic, unhelpful error: sql: no rows in result set or perhaps a vague unexpected EOF. You know what happened, but you have absolutely no idea where or why. Was it the payment gateway? The user profile fetch? Which user? Which transaction ID? You spend three grueling hours digging through distributed traces, cross-referencing timestamps across different services, just because the error didn’t carry enough context....

August 17, 2025 · Shubham Srivastava

Neon: A Lightweight, Zero-Dependency Go HTTP Framework

Repo: Neon on GitHub The Pursuit of Minimalism in Go Web APIs With the release of Go 1.22, the game changed for http.ServeMux. The standard library finally gained the routing power it deserved, leading to a fundamental question: Do we still need massive frameworks for modern microservices? The Engineering Stance: Neon isn’t a “love-hate” response to existing tools; it’s a technical challenge. Can we build a high-velocity developer experience without a 50MB dependency tree?...

January 13, 2024 · Shubham Srivastava