Go Wiki: Why Go
Here’s why: a list of people/organizations explaining why they use Go. This is partly redundant with GoUsers. We also have a specific page dedicated to Go success stories.
- Why Devops Engineers Should Know Go 2020-05-27
- Why We Chose Go 2020-03-02
- Why Go? – Key advantages you may have overlooked 2019-06-01
- From Java to Go 2017-01-15
- Why should you learn Go 2017-01-08
- Moving a team from Scala to Go 2015-12-19
- For Better or For Worse 2015-11-12
- Six reasons why I love Go 2015-10-28
- CERN: Python vs Go for Data Access Service (PDF) 2015-10-18
- Sorry Ruby, I think I’ve fallen for Go 2015-09-26
- Moving to Three Languages 2015-09-15
- Warming up to Go 2015-08-28
- 400 Days of Go
- Iron.io: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2 with Go
- Juju at Canonical
- Go at bitly
- NSQ: realtime distributed message processing at scale
- CloudFlare blows hole in laws of Web physics with Go and Railgun
- Why I Like Go
- dl.google.com now served by Go
- Rob Pike: Why Learn Go?
- Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
- @derekcollison: “Prediction: Go will become the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months.”
- Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
- Dr. Dobb’s: Why Not Go?
- Google I/O 2012: Go in production
- Go at Novartis
- Go at the BBC
- Go at SoundCloud
- Go at Moovweb
- Building StatHat with Go
- Go at CloudFlare
- Why you PHP guys should learn Golang
- I/O BootCamp 2011: Real World Go
- Go at Heroku
- The Business Benefits of Building Your Next Project With Go by Tom Maiaroto
- TweetQureet: a full Golang technology stack by Qureet
- Where and why we use Go by Jeremey Bingham, Raintank.io
- Half a decade with Go by golang.org blog
- Why Learn Go by Rob Pike (YouTube)
- Go at Google by Rob Pike (YouTube)
- Go at Google by Rob Pike (Article)
- 5 things I love by Andrew Gerrand (dotGo 2014)
- dl.google.com powered by Go by Brad Fitzpatrick
- Is Google using Go internally? by golang.org
- The State of the Gopher by Brad Fitzpatrick (dotGo 2014)
- Software I’m excited about by Brad Fitzpatrick (dotScale 2013)
- I came for the easy concurrency I stayed for the easy composition by John Graham-Cumming (dotGo 2014)
- Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection (GC) Plan and Roadmap by Richard L. Hudson
- Five things that make Go fast by Dave Cheney
- Another go at the Next Big Language by Dave Cheney
- Rewriting a large production system in Go by Matt Welsh
- Go is Boring by Steve Bate
- Gopher Academy Blog
- Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) by Jordan Orelli
- Farewell Node.js by TJ Holowaychuk
- Can Go really be that much faster than Python? on StackOverflow
- Python to Go by Weng Wei
- Why I Program in Go by Tahir Hashmi
- DNS Server in Go by Ask Bjørn Hansen
- Go and Swift by Scott Rosenberg
- Features I Like about Go by Abhi Yerra
- From Python to Go translation of a large codebase - Go translation of Reposurgeon
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