Here's why: a list of people/organizations explaining why they use Go. This is partly redundant with GoUsers. We also have a specific page dedicated to Go success stories.

Why Go

• Why Devops Engineers Should Know Go 2020-05-27
• Why We Chose Go 2020-03-02
• Why Go? – Key advantages you may have overlooked 2019-06-01
• From Java to Go 2017-01-15
• Why should you learn Go 2017-01-08
• Moving a team from Scala to Go 2015-12-19
• For Better or For Worse 2015-11-12
• Six reasons why I love Go 2015-10-28
• CERN: Python vs Go for Data Access Service (PDF) 2015-10-18
• Sorry Ruby, I think I've fallen for Go 2015-09-26
• Moving to Three Languages 2015-09-15
• Warming up to Go 2015-08-28
• 400 Days of Go
• Iron.io: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2 with Go
• Juju at Canonical
• Go at bitly
• NSQ: realtime distributed message processing at scale
• CloudFlare blows hole in laws of Web physics with Go and Railgun
• Why I Like Go
• dl.google.com now served by Go
• Rob Pike: Why Learn Go?
• Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
• @derekcollison: “Prediction: Go will become the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months.”
• Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
• Dr. Dobb's: Why Not Go?
• Google I/O 2012: Go in production
• Go at Novartis
• Go at the BBC
• Go at SoundCloud
• Go at Moovweb
• Building StatHat with Go
• Go at CloudFlare
• Why you PHP guys should learn Golang
• I/O BootCamp 2011: Real World Go
• Go at Heroku
• 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
• 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
• Go and Swift by Scott Rosenberg
• Features I Like about Go by Abhi Yerra
• From Python to Go translation of a large codebase - Go translation of Reposurgeon

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