Introduction

Here's why: a list of people/organizations tell why they use Go.

This is partly redundant with https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/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 now served 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
Interview with Gophers by GopherCon India
Go at Docker
Go at YouTube (Vitess) by Sugu Sougoumarane (FOSDEM 2014)
Go at YouTube (Vitess) by Sugu Sougoumarane (I/O Bytes 2014)
Go at YouTube (Vitess) by Sugu Sougoumarane (dotScale 2014 2014)
Go at Facebook
Go at Canonical (Juju) by Dave Cheney
Go at CloudFlare by John Graham-Cumming
Go at Heroku
Go at Iron.io
Go at BBC
Go at Dropbox
Go at Apcera by Derek Collison
Go at fullstory by Ian Rose
Go at Space Monkey
Go at Splice by Matt Aimonetti
Go at Runscope by Frank Stratto
Go at SendGrid by Tim Jenkins
Go at Disqus by Matt Robenolt #1
Go at Disqus by Matt Robenolt #2
Go at New York Times by JP Robinson
Go at SoundCloud by Peter Bourgon
Go at PopTip by Alex Williams
Go at Toggl by Alari Aho
Go at Torbit by Tylor Arndt
Go at Shopify by Tobias Lütke
Go at Bitly
Go at StatHat by Patrick Crosby
Go at Moovweb by Hampton Catlin
Go at Novartis by Don Dwoske
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

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