At work, we recently started a discussion on when to pass function arguments as pointers (by reference) and when to pass by value. A related (but subtly different) question is whether to use pointer receivers or value receivers. Unfortunately, Go’s documentation and standard library aren’t clear on this point, and... [Read More]

So, you need to build a system that exposes some web services. You’re trying to decide between a microservices architecture and a monolithic one. The typical advice from organizations like Amazon AWS and Atlassian confuses logical and physical architecture and gives the false impression that it’s purely an either/or choice.... [Read More]