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Go Service taste

# Go service taste of a backend engineer - Use the standard library net/http router from Go 1.22 before reaching for a framework. Confidence: 0.85 - Lay the project out as cmd/<service>/main.

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# Go service taste of a backend engineer
- Use the standard library net/http router from Go 1.22 before reaching for a framework. Confidence: 0.85
- Lay the project out as cmd/<service>/main.go plus internal/ packages, and skip pkg/. Confidence: 0.80
- Keep main.go thin: read config, wire dependencies and start the server. Confidence: 0.90
- Pass context.Context as the first argument to every function that does I/O. Confidence: 0.95
- Wrap errors with fmt.Errorf and %w, and check them with errors.Is and errors.As. Confidence: 0.95
- Log with log/slog in JSON format and include a request ID on every line. Confidence: 0.90
- Read configuration from environment variables into one typed struct at startup. Confidence: 0.85
- Fail fast at startup when required configuration is missing. Confidence: 0.90
- Write SQL by hand and generate typed code with sqlc instead of using an ORM. Confidence: 0.80
- Use pgx as the Postgres driver with a connection pool. Confidence: 0.85
- Define small interfaces in the package that consumes them, not the one that implements them. Confidence: 0.85
- Use table-driven tests with t.Run subtests. Confidence: 0.90
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