Over the last 18 months, my focus has been on working within the Golang space. Having worked with several growing organisation who have successfully moved from an existing language to Golang, I am excited to work with more who are making the same move. Working within the Golang community is both exciting and refreshing, I am seeing companies scale very quickly and software engineers who are thoroughly enjoying their work.

The main benefits for my clients moving to Golang match the reasons why engineers are switching or intending to switch to Go:

Performance / speed

A big plus for organisations, that I work with switching to Go, is the speed. It proves to be beneficial, super productive and also an enjoyable language for engineers to work with while getting things into production quicker. Some use cases have shown to be 40 times faster than python, for example!

Scalability

Moving from monoliths to microservices is a huge project for most teams. As a result, scalability is a huge reason that they are choosing Golang as their language of choice.

Concurrency

While other languages also support concurrency, threading consumes large amounts of memory and sometimes ends up slowing down the application. With Goroutines, Golang takes up as little as 2KB of memory per goroutine, allowing users to efficiently handle and execute many tasks at once.

Simplicity

Go was created with simplicity in mind. It is very easy to read and write code, especially compared to many of the languages on the same level. It has great documentation and is developed by and heavily used at Google. Meaning we can expect Go to continue to grow in features and popularity.

Use cases

We often try to find the best technology to use for their specific use case. Go is relatively new and was built for the engineering problems of today. While older languages are adapting, Go was built from the ground up around concurrency and scalability.

Whether you want to build a complex API for your web shop, process huge amounts of incoming IoT sensor data, create a social media bot or even something simple like migrate data from one kind of database to another, Golang is a Swiss Army knife that can do it all.

Being immersed in the Golang community, I see first-hand the benefits to organisations making the switch. If you are in the middle of a migration or considering it, I would love to hear your thoughts behind it and how it is going; if you are a software engineer currently working in Golang, I would love to get your thoughts on the future of Golang and the capabilities…

Get in touch with me via calvin@initi8recruitment.com to let me know your thoughts. A huge thank you to software engineer, Adam Albastov, for his help in compiling the list in this blog post.

*image source: Renee French for Go 

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