Introducing Plumego — A Standard-Library-First Go HTTP Toolkit
Plumego is a small, explicit, standard-library-first Go HTTP toolkit designed for maintainable services, ordinary net/http compatibility, and agent-friendly engineering workflows.
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A Practical Tech Stack for Indie Developers — Simple, Reliable, and Built to Ship
A practical guide to choosing a calm, maintainable, and production-ready tech stack for indie developers building web tools, SaaS products, browser extensions, APIs, and small digital products.
Plumego and Explicit Systems: An Engineering Philosophy
A deep engineering essay on the philosophy behind Plumego. This article explores why explicit systems outperform implicit ones in long-lived software, how hidden abstractions accumulate technical debt, and why Plumego is intentionally designed as a framework that forces clarity, ownership, and architectural responsibility.
Building a Real Service with Plumego: From HTTP Entry to Domain Logic
A deep, end-to-end walkthrough of building a real-world backend service with Plumego. This article traces a request from HTTP entry, through routing, middleware, context, use cases, domain logic, and infrastructure, explaining architectural decisions and trade-offs along the way.
Choosing Plumego: A Framework Decision Guide for Serious Go Teams
A comprehensive, in-depth decision guide for evaluating Plumego as a Go framework. This article examines architectural trade-offs, team maturity, system lifecycle, operational concerns, and long-term maintainability to help serious Go teams decide when Plumego is the right choice.
Plumego Advanced Guide: Designing Explicit, Scalable Go Services
An advanced, in-depth guide to Plumego. This tutorial explores real-world architecture patterns, middleware composition, context design, lifecycle management, observability, and building production-grade Go services with Plumego.
Plumego: A Deliberate Go Framework for Engineers Who Value Explicitness
Plumego is a deliberate, explicit Go framework designed for long-lived services, disciplined teams, and engineers who value clarity over magic. This article provides a comprehensive introduction to Plumego’s philosophy, architecture, and practical usage.
When You Should Not Use Plumego
Plumego is not for every project. This article explains, from the perspectives of project stage, team structure, business goals, and risk models, when you should not choose Plumego.
Plumego vs Common Go Frameworks: Design Trade-offs Explained
A comparison between Plumego and mainstream Go frameworks from the perspectives of design philosophy, engineering boundaries, dependency strategy, and long-term maintenance cost—explaining why they differ and which types of projects they best suit.
A Minimal Service Framework That Returns to the Essence of Go
Plumego is a minimal, composable, and highly controllable service framework built on the Go standard library, designed for long-term maintenance, low dependency, and engineering consistency.