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

Why Go

• 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

Who uses Go

• Go at Aerospike by Brian Bulkowski
• Go at Airbrake by Ben Arent
• Go at Apcera by Derek Collison
• Go at Axioms.IO by Dieter Shirley
• Go at BBC
• Go at Bitly
• Go at Canonical (Juju) by Dave Cheney
• Go at CloudFlare by John Graham-Cumming
• Go at Copper.io by Mark Bakker
• Go at CoreOS by Kelsey Hightower
• Go at CoreOS
• Go at Datadog by Jason Moiron
• Go at DigitalOcean
• Go at Disqus by Matt Robenolt #1
• Go at Disqus by Matt Robenolt #2
• Go at Docker
• Go at Domainr by Randy Reddig
• Go at Drone.io by Tom Burke
• Go at Dropbox
• Go at Embed.ly
• Go at Facebook
• Go at Flipboard
• Go at Fullstory by Ian Rose
• Go at GettyImage by Dylan Tomas Meissner
• Go at GitHub by risk danger olson
• Go at GOV.UK by nickstenning and James Stewart
• Go at Granify by Leonid Bugaev
• Go at Heroku
• Go at Iron.io
• Go at Koding by Devrim Yasar
• Go at MaxCDN by Bryan Conklin
• Go at Moovweb by Hampton Catlin
• Go at New York Times by JP Robinson
• Go at Novartis by Don Dwoske
• Go at Percona by Vadim Tkachenko
• Go at PopTip by Alex Williams
• Go at Runscope by Frank Stratto
• Go at SendGrid by Tim Jenkins
• Go at Shopify by Tobias Lütke
• Go at SoundCloud by Peter Bourgon
• Go at SourceGraph by Quinn Slack
• Go at Space Monkey
• Go at Splice by Matt Aimonetti #1
• Go at Splice by Matt Aimonetti #2
• Go at Stack Exchange
• Go at StatHat by Patrick Crosby
• Go at Toggl by Alari Aho
• Go at Torbit by Tylor Arndt
• Go at VividCortex by Anna Navatsyk
• Go at YouTube (Vitess) by Sugu Sougoumarane (dotScale 2014 2014)
• Go at YouTube (Vitess) by Sugu Sougoumarane (FOSDEM 2014)
• Go at YouTube (Vitess) by Sugu Sougoumarane (I/O Bytes 2014)

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