Preventing DB Connection Leak in Golang: Lesson from a Billion Dollar Mistake

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This post is about why we need a separate transaction layer? How to extract it, and test it using Unit and Integration Test.

In my previous blog post, “A Billion Dollar Go Mistake,”. I discussed a common but naive mistake that developers make in Golang, which can lead to connection leaks. Although I offered several ways to fix this…