On application design (Go Time #102)

Mat is joined by Peter Bourgon, Kat Zień, and Ben Johnson to talk about application design in Go — principles, trade-offs, common mistakes, patterns, and the things you should consider when it comes to application design.

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Featuring:

• Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
• Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
• Kat Zień – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X

Show Notes:

• Standard Package Layout
• Context matters on how you lay out your project
• We need an it depends Gopher in Gopher slack
• Standard Go Project Layout ~> golang-standards/project-layout
• xkcd on Standards
• Latency numbers every programmer should know
• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
• Modern software over-engineering mistakes
• Rethinking classical concurrency patterns by Bryan C. Mills @ GopherCon 2018
• Microservices in Go by Matt Heath @ GOTO 2016

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!