Go: Building Web Applications

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What do you do when you decide to write a program?

If you're like a lot of people, you think about the program; perhaps you and a team will write up a spec or requirements document, and then you'll get to coding. Sometimes, there will be a drawing representing some facsimile of the way the application will work.

Quite often, the best way to nail down the architecture and the inner workings of an application is to put pencil to paper and visually represent the way the program will work. For a lot of linear or serial applications, this is often an unnecessary step as things will work in a predictable fashion that should not require any specific coordination within the application logic itself (although ...