Thinking in Pipelines: A Better Way to Structure Go Systems

I was working on a personal project recently. A job scraper. And in the process, I came across a pattern that’s genuinely changed how I think about structuring backend systems in Go. It's called the Pipeline Pattern. And as it turns out, it actually shows up in a lot of places - payments, analytics, APIs, etc. In this article, I’ll be walking you through it using my job scraper project. Which is actually a perfect use case for this pattern, as you’ll see. The Mess We're Trying to Avoid Now befor