It’s common knowledge that dependencies are both amazing and terrible. On one hand, they can help you build your product faster by focusing on core logic, offload complex work, fill a knowledge gap, etc. …

An important rule in Go is that you should always check errors. Most people have no issues with that and are correctly checking all their errors, except when the error might come from a deferred method. This code, for example, is something fairly common in many codebases: The issue here…

Most people in Go are familiar with the basics of creating a variable and updating its value, but in some cases, it can become confusing even for engineers that are not new to Go. Let’s start with the basics. There are a few ways to declare and assign a variable: