Congrats on front page of Hacker News. I found this article easy to follow and generally well written. You'll probably want to fix the following typos when you have a chance do as not to detract from your message.
> The first thing we are going to look at is what we need form our base controller
from
> This example is using httprouter, as this is my go to router in Go
go-to
> applicatoin
application