Errors, Errors Everywhere: How We Centralized and Structured Error Handling.
Handling errors in Go is simple and flexible – yet no structure!
It’s supposed to be simple, right? Just return an error , wrapped with a message, and move on. Well, that simplicity quickly turns into chaotic as our codebase grows with more packages, more developers, and more “quick fixes” that stay there forever. Over time, the logs are full of “failed to do this” and “unexpected that”, and nobody knows if it’s the user’s fault, the server’s fault, buggy code, or it’s just a misalignment of the stars!

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