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Why Go Fits East African Fintech
Mobile Money moves fast and fails loudly. Here's why Go's simplicity, static binaries and concurrency model suit the region's payment rails.
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Mobile Money moves fast and fails loudly. Here's why Go's simplicity, static binaries and concurrency model suit the region's payment rails.
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Threads are buses: big, expensive and slow to start. Goroutines are boda bodas — cheap, nimble and there are thousands of them.
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cmd/, internal/, and a go.work file: the layout we use to keep five services and three libraries sane in one repository.
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Wrapping with %w, sentinel errors, errors.As for types — and when a panic is genuinely the right call.
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A $6 VPS, a systemd unit, Caddy for TLS and Postgres backups to object storage. Our full production setup, costed in shillings.
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One slice of cases, one loop, t.Run — and suddenly testing feels like filling in a spreadsheet.
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A long title for a long lesson: boring technology, good logs and a pager rotation that respects sleep.
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