Part 2: Applying Component-Based Clean Architecture in Go
Package by Components
💡 WARNING: If you’re expecting perfect copy-paste code, better go to StackOverflow. This is real-world code with scars—60% worked on the first try, the other 40% made us cry during refactor.
🚧 The Project That Nearly Burned My Eyeballs
Several months ago, I inherited a Go monolith where:
usersandordersshared structs like drunken confessions.A change in
User.Emailbroke 3 different services.The tests were as fragile as Murano glass.
Part 1: Understanding Clean Architecture Beyond the Diagram
Clean Architecture
⚠️ Warning: This isn’t another theoretical article with pretty diagrams that only work in PowerPoint. I’ll talk about failures, how my first attempts with Clean Architecture were a disaster, and the solution that finally worked in real projects (with deadlines, impatient bosses, and requirements that change every Tuesday).