| Here's why: a list of people/organizations explaining why they use Go. This is partly redundant with [GoUsers](GoUsers) |
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| ## Why Go |
| - [**The Business Benefits of Building Your Next Project With Go** by Tom Maiaroto](https://medium.com/@shift8creative/the-business-benefits-of-building-your-next-project-with-go-ebed4bbc3ed7) |
| - [**TweetQureet: a full Golang technology stack** by Qureet](http://www.qureet.com/blog/golang-technology-stack/) |
| - [**Where and why we use Go** by Jeremey Bingham, Raintank.io](https://blog.raintank.io/where-and-why-we-use-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 BjΓΈrn 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) |
| - [**Go at Apcera** by Derek Collison](https://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/why-we-use-go) |
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| ## Who uses Go |
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| [Moved to the GoUsers page](GoUsers) |
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| ## 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/) |
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| ## Conference & Meetup |
| - [dotGo](http://www.dotgo.eu/) |
| - [Gophercon](http://www.gophercon.com/) |
| - [Gophercon India](http://www.gophercon.in/) |
| - [GothamGo](http://gothamgo.com/) |
