We switched out some API code from Perl and Python to Go. JSON has been a pain at times for sure. Arbitrary nesting, values that are sometimes strings or someti

We switched out some API code from Perl and Python to Go. JSON has been a pain at times for sure. Arbitrary nesting, values that are sometimes strings or sometimes integers (3 vs "3"), dynamic keys, and null vs zero value. These JSON structures were much easier to deal with before because we could be sloppy. Having to have a typed schema was a pain at first, but we love it after. And better yet, we can be confident of the values that we emit and our customers (internal and external) can be now use something statically typed if they like as we did all the heavy lifting.