Happy Path to Go – Transitioning teams to Golang
summary
A Drupal-based CMS team breaks a monolith into a new content-distribution API written in Go and learns concrete practices that work: test-driven development and pairing to teach idiomatic patterns, using pprof and expvar to diagnose a nasty memory leak, and rotating stories plus mandatory refactoring to avoid tech‑debt buildup. The migration takes a few months to move from fragile, debt‑ridden code to stable services and succeeds in production with measurable improvements in deployability and ownership.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Why Golang
- 2:54User Persona
- 4:46Differences
- 12:42Visibility tools
- 14:33Mistakes
- 16:13Peer review
- 17:26Sharing knowledge
- 19:15Celebrating progress
- 20:52Conclusion
