Go

Why Go?

Go (Golang) is my language of choice for building high-performance backend services. Its simplicity, built-in concurrency, and excellent standard library make it ideal for distributed systems.

Key Strengths

Performance

• Compiled to native code for speed
• Efficient memory management
• Low latency and high throughput
• Small binary sizes for containers

Concurrency

Go's concurrency model is exceptional:

• Goroutines for lightweight threading
• Channels for safe communication
• Select statements for multiplexing
• Built-in race detector

Tooling

The Go ecosystem includes:

• Fast compilation
• Built-in testing framework
• Code formatting with gofmt
• Dependency management with modules
• Powerful profiling tools

My Experience

I've used Go extensively for:

• ML model serving infrastructure
• High-throughput API services
• Microservices architectures
• CLI tools and automation

In my ML platform work, Go was crucial for achieving sub-100ms latency at scale while maintaining code simplicity.

Best Practices

• Embrace simplicity and readability
• Use interfaces for abstraction
• Handle errors explicitly
• Leverage the standard library
• Write idiomatic Go code