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The Repository pattern in Go: a painless way to simplify your service logic
I’ve seen a lot of complicated code in my life. Pretty often, the reason for that complexity was application logic coupled with database logic. Keeping the logic of your application together with your database logic makes your application much more complex, harder to test, and harder to maintain. There is already a proven and simple pattern that solves these issues. This pattern allows you to separate your application logic from database logic.
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