How I write Go HTTP services after seven years

1 min readMay 9, 2018

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UPDATE: You can watch a video of me giving this talk at Gophercon 2019:

GopherCon 2019: Mat Ryer — How I Write HTTP Web Services after Eight Years

An updated version of this post is available on the Pace blog.

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