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Companies using Go
Organizations in every industry use Go to power their software and services View all stories
“At the time, no single team member knew Go, but within a month, everyone was writing in Go and we were building out the endpoints. It was the flexibility, how easy it was to use, and the really cool concept behind Go (how Go handles native concurrency, garbage collection, and of course safety+speed.) that helped engage us during the build. Also, who can beat that cute mascot!”
— Jaime Enrique Garcia Lopez, Senior Software Development Manager at Capital One
" A small language that compiles fast makes for a happy developer. The Go language is small, compiles really fast, and as a result it lets your mind focus on the actual problem and less on the tool you are using to solve it. Code, test, debug cycles are so quick that you forget you are not working with an interpreted language. Looking at our code, you see less boilerplate and more business logic. "
— Clayton Coleman, Lead Engineer, Open Shift at RedHat
“ Go has excellent characteristics for scalability and services written using it typically have very small memory footprints. Because code is compiled into a single static binary, services can also be containerised with ease, making it much simpler to build and deploy. These attributes make Go an ideal choice for companies building microservices , as you can easily deploy into a highly available and scalable environment such as Kubernetes.”
— Matt Boyle, Lead Software Engineer at Curve
"In our tightly managed environments where we run Go code, we have seen a CPU reduction of approximately 10% with cleaner and maintainable code."
— Bala Natarajan, Sr. Director of Engineering, Developer Experience at PayPal
"Tooling has always been a problem with our legacy code base... but we have found that Go has excellent tooling, plus built-in testing, benchmarking, and profiling frameworks. It is easy to write efficient and resilient applications. After working on Go, most of our developers don't want to go back to other languages. "
— Benjamin Cane, Vice President and Principal Engineer at American Express
"...when a programming language is designed for exactly the environment most of us use right now—scalable, cloud-based servers that are optimized for performance—a lot can go right."
— John Biggs and Ben Popper, at Stack Overflow
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// You can edit this code! // Click here and start typing. package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("Hello, 世界") }
Hello, 世界 Program exited.
What’s possible with Go
Use Go for a variety of software development purposes
Cloud & Network Services
With a strong ecosystem of tools and APIs on major cloud providers, it is easier than ever to build services with Go.
Popular Packages:
cloud.google.com/go
aws/client
Azure/azure-sdk-for-go
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Command-line Interfaces
With popular open source packages and a robust standard library, use Go to create fast and elegant CLIs.
spf13/cobra
spf13/viper
urfave/cli
delve
chzyer/readline
Web Development
With enhanced memory performance and support for several IDEs, Go powers fast and scalable web applications.
net/http
html/template
flosch/pongo2
database/sql
olivere/elastic
DevOps & Site Reliability
With fast build times, lean syntax, an automatic formatter and doc generator, Go is built to support both DevOps and SRE.
opentracing/opentracing-go
istio/istio
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Upcoming Events
Leipzig Golang Meetup #23
Nov 23, 2021 | Leipzig, Germany
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Mihai Todor: Gophers guide to Data Streaming at Scale with Benthos
Nov 23, 2021 | Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
12va Meetup de Golang Argentina
Nov 23, 2021 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Book Club > Get Programming With Go
Nov 24, 2021 | Eugene, OR USA
Reading club: Scheduling In Go : Part III - Concurrency
Nov 24, 2021 | Toronto, ON Canada
Canberra Gophers December 2021
Dec 1, 2021 | Canberra, Australia
Here we Go again! @ InterEast
Dec 1, 2021 | Göteborg, Sweden
45th Gofrm Meetup: Go Hands-On (a.k.a. Workshop): DevOps for Go Developers
Dec 7, 2021 | Frankfurt, Germany
Baltimore Go Monthly Meeting
Dec 7, 2021 | Baltimore, MD USA
Autoscaling Kinesis using Go & Consumer Driven Contract Testing
Dec 7, 2021 | Lehi, UT USA
Go(ne online) - Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi)
Dec 8, 2021 | Bristol, United Kingdom
[online] December Golang meetup
Dec 8, 2021 | Berlin, Germany
Online Go Coffee!
Dec 8, 2021 | Seattle, WA USA
Joint GolangNYC ✈ GoSF Meetup - 2 Awesome Talks!
Dec 8, 2021 | New York, NY USA
Joint GoSF ✈ GolangNYC Meetup: 2 Awesome Talks!
Dec 8, 2021 | San Francisco, CA USA
Get started with Go
Explore a wealth of learning resources, including guided journeys, courses, books, and more.
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On-site classroom training on Go and consulting on distributed systems architectures, in India.