Serving a billion web requests with boring code

A developer recounts their experience building and launching a large-scale healthcare application for the US government using stable and well-known technologies like Golang, PostgreSQL, and React. Emphasizing the importance of simplicity and reliability, the project achieved high performance with minimal errors. The backend was modular, using gRPC for service communication, and a strict backwards-compatibility policy ensured robustness. The team faced challenges with documentation generation and maintaining sql-mock tests, but overall, the software was successful and served millions efficiently.