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Aleksei Aleinikov
Aleksei Aleinikov

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๐Ÿ”€ Go Build Tags: One Repo, Many Realities

One binary for dev, another for prod. Native crypto on Linux, SQLite for CI, embedded React in release builds. No if, just //go:build.

๐Ÿงฉ Real examples:
โ€ข Switch DB drivers without touching code
โ€ข Debug vs prod logging โ€” cleanly
โ€ข Shrink binaries by excluding unused deps
โ€ข Native vs pure-Go crypto with a tag
โ€ข Serve UI from memory or proxy from localhost

โœจ Your Go project in 2025 should shape-shift โ€” this is how:
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/build-once-run-anywhere-go-tag-tricks-for-2025-projects-23c3345df058

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