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](http://blog.golang.org/5years)
- [**Why Learn Go** by Rob Pike (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTl0tl9BGdc)
- [**Go at Google** by Rob Pike (YouTube)](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Go-Google)
- [**Go at Google** by Rob Pike (Article)](http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article)
- [**5 things I love** by Andrew Gerrand (dotGo 2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTOOPB1TBY)
- [**dl.google.com powered by Go** by Brad Fitzpatrick](http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1)
- [*Is Google using Go internally?* by golang.org](https://golang.org/doc/faq#Is_Google_using_go_internally)
- [**The State of the Gopher** by Brad Fitzpatrick (dotGo 2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KFTacxqkcQ)
- [*Software I'm excited about* by Brad Fitzpatrick (dotScale 2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYukPc0y_Ro)
- [*I came for the easy concurrency I stayed for the easy composition* by John Graham-Cumming (dotGo 2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KFTacxqkcQ)
- [**Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection (GC) Plan and Roadmap** by Richard L. Hudson](https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLovrHvvLhK_h0KN8woTO4/edit)
- [*Five things that make Go fast* by Dave Cheney](http://dave.cheney.net/2014/06/07/five-things-that-make-go-fast)
- [*Another go at the Next Big Language* by Dave Cheney](http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/03/another-go-at-the-next-big-language)
- [*Rewriting a large production system in Go* by Matt Welsh](http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/08/rewriting-large-production-system-in-go.html)
- [*Go is Boring* by Steve Bate](http://stevebate.silvrback.com/go-is-boring)
- [**Gopher Academy Blog**](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/)
  - [*Kubernetes + Go = Crazy Delicious* by Joe Beda](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/kubernetes-go-crazy-delicious/)
  - [*Why InfluxDB is written in Go* by Paul Dix](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/why-influxdb-uses-go/)
  - [*How Continuum ended up being written in Go* by Derek Collison](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/apcera/)
  - [**Building Street Address Autocomplete with Go** by Matt Holt](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/building-street-address-autocomplete/)
- [**GopherConIndia Interview with Gophers**](http://www.gophercon.in/blog/)
- [*Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)* by Jordan Orelli](http://jordanorelli.com/post/31533769172/why-i-went-from-python-to-go-and-not-node-js)
- [*Farewell Node.js* by TJ Holowaychuk](https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b)
- [*Can Go really be that much faster than Python?* on StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12574909/can-go-really-be-that-much-faster-than-python)
- [*Python to Go* by Weng Wei](http://www.slideshare.net/wuvist1/python-to-go)
- [*Why I Program in Go* by Tahir Hashmi](http://tech.t9i.in/2013/01/why-program-in-go/)
- [*DNS Server in Go* by Ask Bjørn Hansen](http://news.ntppool.org/2012/10/new-dns-server.html)
- [*Fixing Server bottlenecks with Go and Nginx* by Ismael Celis](https://www.new-bamboo.co.uk/blog/2014/11/18/fixing-server-bottlenecks-with-go-and-nginx/)
- [*Go and Switft* by Scott Rosenberg](https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644)
- [*Features I Like about Go* by Abhi Yerra](https://medium.com/on-being-a-code-monkey/things-i-like-about-go-e026762be8ac)

## Who uses Go
- [**Go at Aerospike** by Brian Bulkowski](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/GA902tHnjdM/ARRaBS2g4zEJ)
- [**Go at Airbrake** by Ben Arent](https://airbrake.io/blog/status/planned-airbrake-migration-love-go-love-riak)
- [**Go at Apcera** by Derek Collison](https://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/why-we-use-go)
- [**Go at Axioms.IO** by Dieter Shirley](http://axioms.io/zen/2014-11-06-swift-go/)
- [**Go at BBC**](http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-Go-ready-for-production-use/answer/Kunal-Anand)
- [**Go at Bitly**](http://word.bitly.com/post/29550171827/go-go-gadget)
- [**Go at Bowery**](http://bowery.io/posts/Nodejs-to-Golang-Bowery/)
- [**Go at Canonical (Juju)** by Dave Cheney](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/jLnMsUbYwrQ/isfMUvBOkEIJ)
- [**Go at CloudFlare** by John Graham-Cumming](http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare/)
- [**Go at Copper.io** by Mark Bakker](https://blog.copper.io/building-a-scaleable-app-that-can-actually-scale/)
- [**Go at CoreOS** by Kelsey Hightower](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/go-at-coreos/)
- [**Go at CoreOS**](https://github.com/coreos/go-etcd)
- [**Go at Datadog** by Jason Moiron](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/go-at-datadog/)
- [**Go at DigitalOcean**](https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/get-your-development-team-started-with-go/)
- [**Go at Disqus** by Matt Robenolt #1](http://blog.disqus.com/post/51155103801/trying-out-this-go-thing)
- [**Go at Disqus** by Matt Robenolt #2](http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/5/7/update-on-disqus-its-still-about-realtime-but-go-demolishes.html)
- [**Go at Docker**](http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/docker-and-go-why-did-we-decide-to-write-docker-in-go)
- [**Go at Domainr** by Randy Reddig](https://twitter.com/rr/status/368988340848037889)
- [**Go at Drone.io** by Tom Burke](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/Lo7KP3rWP3o/GvNju75FgPIJ)
- [**Go at Dropbox**](https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/07/open-sourcing-our-go-libraries/)
- [**Go at Embed.ly**](http://blog.embed.ly/post/45149878472/167857590)
- [**Go at Facebook**](https://github.com/facebookgo)
- [**Go at Flipboard**](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140956)
- [**Go at Fullstory** by Ian Rose](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/go-at-fullstory/)
- [**Go at GettyImage** by Dylan Tomas Meissner](https://twitter.com/ickypop/status/441470245492908032)
- [**Go at GitHub** by risk danger olson](http://techno-weenie.net/2013/11/2/key-value-logs-in-go/)
- [**Go at GitHub**](https://github.com/github/hub/issues/475)
- [**Go at GOV.UK** by nickstenning and James Stewart](https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/building-a-new-router-for-gov-uk/)
- [**Go at Granify** by Leonid Bugaev](http://leonsbox.com/blog/2013/06/04/improving-testing-by-using-real-traffic-from-production/)
- [**Go at Heroku**](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/05/google_go/)
- [**Go at Iron.io**](http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html)
- [**Go at Koding** by Devrim Yasar](http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Koding-switch-from-Node-js-to-Go)
- [**Go at MaxCDN** by Bryan Conklin](https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/learned-stop-worrying-love-logs/)
- [**Go at Moovweb** by Hampton Catlin](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/MeiTNnGhLg8/discussion)
- [**Go at New York Times** by JP Robinson](http://open.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/07/10/emr-streaming-in-go/?_r=0)
- [**Go at Novartis** by Don Dwoske](https://plus.google.com/114945221884326152379/posts/d1SVaqkRyTL)
- [**Go at Percona** by Vadim Tkachenko](http://www.percona.com/blog/2014/05/14/tips-benchmarking-go-mysql/)
- [**Go at PopTip** by Alex Williams](http://thenewstack.io/from-node-js-to-go-why-one-startup-made-the-switch/)
- [**Go at Runscope** by Frank Stratto](http://blog.runscope.com/posts/go-at-runscope)
- [**Go at SendGrid** by Tim Jenkins](https://sendgrid.com/blog/convince-company-go-golang/)
- [**Go at Shopify** by Tobias Lütke](https://twitter.com/tobi/status/245873677483274240)
- [**Go at SoundCloud** by Peter Bourgon](https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/go-at-soundcloud)
- [**Go at SourceGraph** by Quinn Slack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpKaoPz8l8)
- [**Go at Space Monkey**](https://www.spacemonkey.com/blog/posts/go-space-monkey)
- [**Go at Splice** by Matt Aimonetti #1](https://blog.splice.com/golang-improved-simplicity-reduced-maintenance/)
- [**Go at Splice** by Matt Aimonetti #2](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/go-shaped-splice-engineering-culture/)
- [**Go at Stack Exchange**](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/11/announcing-bosun-our-new-open-source-monitoring-alerting-system/)
- [**Go at StatHat** by Patrick Crosby](http://blog.golang.org/building-stathat-with-go)
- [**Go at Toggl** by Alari Aho](http://blog.toggl.com/2012/09/moving-to-go/)
- [**Go at Torbit** by Tylor Arndt](http://torbit.com/blog/2013/02/19/big-data-at-torbit/)
- [**Go at VividCortex** by Anna Navatsyk](https://vividcortex.com/blog/2014/11/20/in-case-you-missed-it-developing-mysql-apps-with-go/?utm_source=org&utm_medium=twit)
- [**Go at Yahoo**](https://github.com/yahoo/webseclab)
- [**Go at YouTube (Vitess)** by Sugu Sougoumarane (dotScale 2014 2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yDO-tmIoXY)
- [**Go at YouTube (Vitess)** by Sugu Sougoumarane (FOSDEM 2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qATTTSg6zXk)
- [**Go at YouTube (Vitess)** by Sugu Sougoumarane (I/O Bytes 2014)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=midJ6b1LkA0&sns=gp)


## Benchmarks
- [**Express vs Flask vs Go vs Sparkjava** by Bijan](https://medium.com/@tschundeee/express-vs-flask-vs-go-acc0879c2122)
- [**Comparing the Performance of Various Web Frameworks** by Abel Avram](http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/05/benchmark-web-framework)
- [TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks](http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/)


## Conference & Meetup
- [dotGo](http://www.dotgo.eu/)
- [Gophercon](http://www.gophercon.com/)
- [Gophercon India](http://www.gophercon.in/)
- [GothamGo](http://gothamgo.com/)