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Burak Serdar
Burak Serdar
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Burak Serdar

Burak Serdar is a software engineer with over 30 years of experience in designing and developing distributed enterprise applications that scale. He's worked for several start-ups and large corporations, including Thomson and Red Hat, as an engineer and technical lead. He's one of the co-founders of Cloud Privacy Labs where he works on semantic interoperability and privacy technologies for centralized and decentralized systems. Burak holds BSc and MSc degrees in electrical and electronics engineering, and an MSc degree in computer science.
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Error handling

Error handling in Go has been a polarizing issue. Frustrated with the repetitive error-handling boilerplate, many Go users in the community (including me) suggested improved error-handling mechanisms. Most of these proposals were actually error-passing improvements because, to be honest, errors are rarely handled. Rather, they are passed to the caller, sometimes wrapped with some contextual information.

A good number of error-handling proposals suggested different variations on throw-catch, while many others were simply what is called syntactic sugar for if err!=nil return err. Many of these proposals missed the point that the existing error reporting and handling conventions work nicely in a concurrent environment, such as the ability to pass errors via a channel: you can handle errors generated by one goroutine in another goroutine.

An important point I like to emphasize when working with Go programs is that most of the time, they can be analyzed by solely relying...

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Burak Serdar

Burak Serdar is a software engineer with over 30 years of experience in designing and developing distributed enterprise applications that scale. He's worked for several start-ups and large corporations, including Thomson and Red Hat, as an engineer and technical lead. He's one of the co-founders of Cloud Privacy Labs where he works on semantic interoperability and privacy technologies for centralized and decentralized systems. Burak holds BSc and MSc degrees in electrical and electronics engineering, and an MSc degree in computer science.
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