Companies Using Golang | Go Programming Language

Why use Golang?
Which companies are using Golang?
Are there any companies that use Golang in production?
These are just some of the questions we most commonly hear when speaking to our clients.

Now Golang is a modern language and fairly new if you consider that it was publically announced only in 2009 by Google engineers Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Greisemer. While languages such as Java, Python, and Ruby have been around since ’90s. Well, actually Python was developed in 1989.

So that makes Google’s Golang the new kid on the block.
Well in case you find this surprising because I don’t Golang was actually the 9th most popular language on Git hub in 2017 surpassing C.
Well, that’s ok but is anybody even using it?

So here we go.
Here are our top 5 picks of companies that use Golang:

Sendgrid: It is a cloud-based email service to reliably deliver high volume emails on behalf of some of the biggest companies in the world which includes uber, Airbnb, Spotify and more. SendGrid’s customizable, reliable, and scalable APIs have been developed using Golang.

Medium:
The online content publishing platform Medium is also using Golang extensively. Their Neo4j database is managed by a service written in Go which they refer to as GoSocial. Medium further uses Golang for image processing as well as certain other backend services.

Uber
Uber has written over a hundred services in Golang. Geobase one of the most recent Uber services written in Golang. It matches riders to drivers, sharding the matching across machines. In fact, Golang powers a majority of high QPS services at Uber.

Google:

Dailymotion:
Is a video-sharing website somewhat similar to YouTube Dailymotion uses Golang for automation of APIs and End to End test cases. They conduct hundreds of automation tests every month using Golang.