Developer Builds Custom RBAC Library in Pure Go to Learn API Design Fundamentals

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A beginner backend developer built GateKeeper v1.0.0, a Role-Based Access Control library written entirely in Go's standard library, to understand how public authorization libraries work under the hood. The library supports a three-tier model — users, roles, and permissions — with a clean public API covering creation, assignment, and deletion operations. During development, the author discovered a referential integrity bug where deleting a role left orphaned role IDs stored on user objects, requiring a cascading cleanup approach to maintain valid system state. A second bug revealed that returning Go slices without defensive copying allowed external code to inadvertently mutate internal engine state, highlighting nuances of Go's memory model. The project served as a hands-on lesson in API design, encapsulation, and architectural thinking beyond what tutorials typically cover.

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