Here's why: a list of people/organizations explaining why they use Go. This is partly redundant with GoUsers

Why Go

• 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
  • Kubernetes + Go = Crazy Delicious by Joe Beda
  • Why InfluxDB is written in Go by Paul Dix
  • How Continuum ended up being written in Go by Derek Collison
  • Building Street Address Autocomplete with Go by Matt Holt
• GopherConIndia Interview with Gophers
• 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
• Fixing Server bottlenecks with Go and Nginx by Ismael Celis
• Go and Switft by Scott Rosenberg
• Features I Like about Go by Abhi Yerra
• Go at Apcera by Derek Collison

Who uses Go

Moved to the GoUsers page

Benchmarks

• Express vs Flask vs Go vs Sparkjava by Bijan
• Comparing the Performance of Various Web Frameworks by Abel Avram
• TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks

Conference & Meetup

• dotGo
• Gophercon
• Gophercon India
• GothamGo