Ken Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google
Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success as an open source project thanks to its robust standard libraries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTrAISNdf70
Reddit migrates from Python to Go
Reddit successfully migrated its largest data model—the Comments model—from a problematic legacy Python service to a new Golang microservice to improve reliability and performance. This involved a complex and safe migration strategy for write endpoints, which used sister data stores for isolated dual writes and tap comparison to ensure data integrity without disrupting production, ultimately halving the p99 latency for the three migrated write endpoints. https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1mbqto6/modernizing_reddits_comment_backend_infrastructure/
Go is currently the best back-end language
In the past I've used Perl, C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and C# for back-end web stuff and right now for me Go is the best choice.
In the 90s especially in 1998 when PHP3 came out PHP became my back-end language of choice.
Yes I also recently looked at Rust, nah for now.
The Go html/template package is great for generating dynamic HTML content.
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