This talk from of @derekcollison, shows why they are using golang at apcera.

It caught my attention when he refers companies that are using golang, he mention one source:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/gousers

Opening the github and doing a quickly count document.querySelectorAll('.markdown-body li'); it says about 348 companies using golang are listed in this wiki.

Some highlight for:

• Digitalocean
• Disqus
• Facebook
• Github
• Google
• IBM
• Netflix
• Pivotal
• Rackspace
• Shopify
• …

Some of these companies I didn’t know that were using golang, it’s nice to see so different companies, using go for achieve their expected results.

… backing to the talk

Some of the reasons that he gave about why go are:

• Simple language, easy to remember
• Good standard library
• Easy concurrency
• Synchronous Programming Model (he compares that with node.js callbacks)
• Good garbage collection
• Really stacks

One point he emphasize and that I most like is that go is for get things done.

Why Go at Apcera?

In his opinion:

• Best choice for distributed systems
  He says he is able to test all system by using Go routines, it’s not a kind of unit test, but more a functional test
• It’s a good core language
  He says that is easy to hire talent people, even without a background experience, as it is an accessible language in few weeks people can be productive and know the language well.
• Good standard library support
• Tooling is amazing
  go vet, go fmt, go test -race, etc…

He mention what they do there and why go fit:

• Message systems
• Distributed Scheduling system
• Orchestator
• Policy Engine
• Isolation - Secure Perimeter Networking
• Semantically aware communications

He endup the talk asking: Why Go?

• It is simple language
• Pretty good ecosystem
• It is getting better faster