Break | Rebellious, Not Revolutionary

Rebellious, Not Revolutionary

February 28, 2026 / 40:10/E29

Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! Kris and Matt continue the Go repository structure conversation by zooming in on the details. The pair discuss what they dislike about database libraries in Go, with a particular distaste for mocking. Then they have an extended discussion of Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" quadrant framework from TalosCon. They argue Go was rebellious, but modules have been slid it into the accreted quadrant.

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Chapters:

Prologue (00:00:00)
Chapter 1: Go's database/sql Package Design and Magic Imports (00:01:24)
Chapter 2: SQL Mocking Is Painful, Just Use a Real Database (00:04:23)
Chapter 3: Global Side Effects and Why Nobody Will Fix Go's SQL (00:08:07)
Chapter 4: Go Package Design and the Limits of Import Paths (00:12:31)
Chapter 5: Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" Quadrant Framework (00:17:49)
Chapter 6: Where Does Go Actually Fit? Rebellious, Not Revolutionary (00:24:15)
Chapter 7: Go Is Sliding Into "Accreted" Territory (00:33:04)
Epilogue (00:39:30)

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Matthew Sanabria

Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. Matthew serves the Go community as a member of GoBridge. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.

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