Build a URL Shortener with Claude — Go + Redis + Docker
After a full-stack blog, a weather dashboard, a desktop app, and a mobile app, we close Part 2 with something different: a backend microservice in Go. Go is interesting for vibe coding because the language is simple and opinionated. There is usually one way to do things. Claude should have an easier time generating idiomatic Go than, say, idiomatic Rust. Let us find out. Total time: 2 hours 14 minutes. 6 prompts. Go’s simplicity made this the fastest Part 2 project. ...