| Here's why: a list of people/organizations explaining why they use Go. This is partly redundant with [GoUsers](GoUsers). We also have a specific page dedicated to [Go success stories](SuccessStories). |
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| ## Why Go |
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| - [From Java to Go](https://gquintana.github.io/2017/01/15/From-Java-to-Go.html) _2017-01-15_ |
| - [Why should you learn Go](https://medium.com/@kevalpatel2106/why-should-you-learn-go-f607681fad65#.qu6he77fy) _2017-01-08_ |
| - [Moving a team from Scala to Go](http://jimplush.com/talk/2015/12/19/moving-a-team-from-scala-to-golang/) _2015-12-19_ |
| - [For Better or For Worse](http://jmoiron.net/blog/for-better-or-for-worse/) _2015-11-12_ |
| - [Six reasons why I love Go](http://jbu.io/2015/10/28/six-reasons-why-i-love-go/) _2015-10-28_ |
| - [CERN: Python vs Go for Data Access Service (PDF)](https://indico.cern.ch/event/449425/session/1/contribution/6/attachments/1168560/1685802/DAS_python_vs_go.pdf) _2015-10-18_ |
| - [Sorry Ruby, I think I've fallen for Go](https://medium.com/@voxxit/sorry-ruby-i-think-i-ve-fallen-for-go-2e92ce1b356) _2015-09-26_ |
| - [Google Go: Why Google's programming language can rival Java in the Enterprise - Techworld](http://www.techworld.com/apps/why-googles-go-programming-language-could-rival-java-in-enterprise-3626140/) _2015-09-25_ |
| - [Moving to Three Languages](http://www.jaredwray.com/2015/09/15/moving-to-three-languages/) _2015-09-15_ |
| - [Warming up to Go](http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2015_08_28_warming_up_to_go.html) _2015-08-28_ |
| - [400 Days of Go](http://www.philipotoole.com/400-days-of-go/) |
| - [Iron.io: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2 with Go](http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html) |
| - [Behind the Scenes: Big Data at Torbit](http://torbit.com/blog/2013/02/19/big-data-at-torbit/) |
| - [Juju at Canonical](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/18atce/juju_canonical_109k_lines_of_go_code/) |
| - [Go at bitly](http://word.bitly.com/post/29550171827/go-go-gadget) |
| - [NSQ: realtime distributed message processing at scale](http://word.bitly.com/post/33232969144/nsq) |
| - [CloudFlare blows hole in laws of Web physics with Go and Railgun](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/cloudflare-blows-hole-in-laws-of-web-physics-with-go-and-railgun/) |
| - [Why I Like Go](https://gist.github.com/freeformz/4746274) |
| - [dl.google.com now served by Go](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-nuts/BNUNbKSypE0) |
| - [Google's Go Programming Language Grows Up: Now What?](http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/03/googles-go-programming-languag.php) |
| - [Moving to Go](http://blog.toggl.com/2012/09/moving-to-go/) |
| - [Rob Pike: Why Learn Go?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTl0tl9BGdc) |
| - [Go At Conformal](https://www.cyphertite.com/blog.php?/archives/7-Go-at-Conformal..html) |
| - [Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)](http://jordanorelli.tumblr.com/post/31533769172/why-i-went-from-python-to-go-and-not-node-js) |
| - [@tobi](http://twitter.com/tobi): ["I have now completed two projects in Go. I predict that it's going to be the dominant language for server work."](https://twitter.com/tobi/status/245873677483274240) |
| - [@derekcollison](http://twitter.com/derekcollison): ["Prediction: Go will become the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months."](https://twitter.com/derekcollison/status/245522124666716160) |
| - [Will Go be the new go-to programming language?](http://gigaom.com/cloud/will-go-be-the-new-go-to-programming-language/) |
| - [Go is boring](http://aeronotix.pl/blog/go-is-boring) |
| - [Dr. Dobb's: Why Not Go?](http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/why-not-go/240005062) |
| - [Google I/O 2012: Go in production](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A) |
| - [Go at Novartis](https://plus.google.com/114945221884326152379/posts/d1SVaqkRyTL) |
| - [Go at the BBC](http://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language/Is-Google-Go-ready-for-production-use/answer/Kunal-Anand) |
| - [Go at SoundCloud](http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/) |
| - [Go at Moovweb](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/MeiTNnGhLg8/discussion) |
| - [Building StatHat with Go](http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/building-stathat-with-go.html) |
| - [Go at CloudFlare](http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare) |
| - [Why you PHP guys should learn Golang](http://www.mikespook.com/2012/08/why-you-php-guys-should-learn-golang/) |
| - [I/O BootCamp 2011: Real World Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDVRowyUQA) |
| - [Go at Heroku](http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html) |
| - [**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 Swift* 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/) |
