Designing Go APIs That Don’t Age Badly

When building APIs in Go, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush to ship. You create an elegant endpoint, document it, and call it a day. But as your service evolves and your user base grows, what once seemed like a simple, clean API can quickly turn into a maintenance nightmare. If you don’t consider the long-term design of your Go APIs, you may find yourself with an API that becomes difficult to maintain , fragile , and hard to scale . In this post, we’ll cover some essential strategies for de