Reviewing different approaches to HTTP routing in Go

#323 — July 31, 2020

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Different Approaches to HTTP Routing in Go— “There are many ways to do HTTP path routing in Go – for better or worse.” And Ben takes a pretty neat tour through a variety of options here.

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