net/http/httptrace gets a practical walkthrough

The piece making the rounds today is a tour of Go's net/http/httptrace, showing how to hook into the lifecycle of an outbound HTTP request for real diagnostics rather than guesswork. Alongside it, Alex Edwards' explainer on Go experiments is circulating for anyone who has ever squinted at GOEXPERIMENT and wondered what they were opting into. The Bruin folks also claim a 12x speedup after rewriting their ingestr CLI in Go, which is the sort of number that always deserves a closer read before you believe it.