At Banzai Cloud we work with cutting edge cloud technology every single day. Nowadays cloud and container related softwares are almost exclusively written in the Go programming language, so it’s no surprise most of our projects (Pipeline or Bank-Vaults to name a few) are also written in Go. In this post we will take a look at our favorite features of the latest (1.13) Go release. Reproducible builds — -trimpath Reproducible builds (or deterministic compilation) is the process of compiling a software in a way that ensures that the resulting artifact can be reproduced, given certain conditions are met.

At Banzai Cloud we develop a container management platform that provisions and orchestrates hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across six different cloud providers or hybrid clouds every day. Pipeline makes it easy for users to run applications on Kubernetes, but under the hood there is an insanely complex system, so it’s mission critical for us to have realtime information about what’s happening inside the platform and have access to historical data to investigate incidents our customers may have had.

At Banzai Cloud we are building a feature rich enterprise-grade application platform, built for containers on top of Kubernetes, called Pipeline. The platform itself consists of many building blocks - over 30 components - but they share one commonality: they are all developed in Golang. Obviously we are very fond of Go and like it quite a bit, so in this post we’d like to share the error handling practices that our team of 20+ developers adheres to while building the Pipeline platform.