From IP Addresses to a Branded Domain: One Go Team's Vanity URL Journey
“What Service Is 10.0.1.50?” Alex stared at the error message on his screen, frowning. build failed: cannot find module "10.0.1.50/user-service": module lookup disabled by GOPROXY=off He turned to the new hire sitting next to him: “Do you know what 10.0.1.50 is?” Ben looked blank. He’d only been with the company for three days. This was daily life at Alex’s company — a mid-sized fintech firm. The platform team had over 50 Go microservices, all using internal IP addresses as import paths. Nobody thought anything of it — until last week’s server migration. ...