Simplifying Logging There's Gotta Be A Better Way * Using a Single Value Currently we pass an error, and a message in a lot of places. if httpError(w, err, "was doing something") { return } log.WithError(err).Errorln("was doing something") Instead, we can just use `errors.Wrap`, which returns nil if err is nil. if httpError(w, errors.Wrap(err, "do something")) { return } * Adding Context Having context when logging allows us to do things like: - Enable debugging per-request, or per-subsystem - Log a RequestID so we see all errors associated with a request if httpError(ctx, w, errors.Wrap(err, "do something")) { return } * A Simple Interface The `httpError` example earlier, would call some type of logger. Let's define what that could look like. We care about 2 things: - Logging things we always need to know (errors, requests) - Logging things when debugging So the simplest interface could be: Log(ctx, err) Debug(ctx, err) *