Taking a Go Service to Production: slog, Configuration, Graceful Shutdown, pprof and Small Containers
Getting a Go service ready for production means reading settings from environment variables into a struct, writing JSON logs with log/slog, catching SIGTERM with signal.NotifyContext and exiting through server.Shutdown, adding health checks and serving pprof on a separate port. In Bookstore: slog with the request ID, a drain delay, measuring container-aware GOMAXPROCS and GOMEMLIMIT, builds with -trimpath and ldflags, and a 4.72 MB distroless image.
15 Nov 2026
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