War Story: I Ditched My CS Degree for a Bootcamp and Became a Go 1.25 Engineer I never thought I’d be writing this. Two years ago, I was three semesters into a traditional Computer Science degree, drowning in abstract calculus and outdated Java curriculum, wondering if I’d ever write code that actually mattered. Today, I’m a backend engineer working full-time with Go 1.25, building low-latency m
You have probably seen a file named “go.sum” in almost every Go project you have worked on. You may have even seen it change every time you run “go mod tidy”. But do you actually know what it does? It is one of those files that works silently in the background, and some developers never stop to think about it. The “go.sum” file is one of those files you never really interact with directly, but it