How Mat writes HTTP services in Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it.

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Featuring:

• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:44)

3. Mat's article (00:02:17)

https://grafana.com/blog/2024/02/09/how-i-write-http-services-in-go-after-13-years/

4. The most you've encountered (00:10:50)

5. Routes.go (00:15:03)

6. Cookies (00:21:59)

7. Run (00:25:52)

8. Struct tags (00:31:42)

9. Error messages (00:43:09)

10. Testing (00:46:49)

11. Oto (00:54:23)

12. Unpopular opinions! (00:57:39)

13. Mat's unpop (00:58:08)

14. Johnny's unpop (00:59:25)

15. Outro (01:09:53)