Golang Development FAQ

What is Golang?

Golang, also known as Go, is an open-source programming language created by Google in 2007. It is designed to be efficient, reliable, and easy to use for building scalable and concurrent applications. Golang is a fast, compiled language. – Golang applications compile quickly to machine level code, and can run at speeds much faster than C#, Java, PHP, Python or Ruby.

What is a Golang developer?

A Golang developer is a software developer who specializes in writing code using the Go programming language. They are responsible for building applications and systems that are efficient, reliable, and scalable.

What skills should a Golang developer have?

A Golang developer should have a solid understanding of programming principles, data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns. They should also be familiar with Go's syntax, libraries, and tools. Additionally, experience with distributed systems and concurrency is highly desirable.

What are some popular companies that use Golang?

Some popular companies that use Golang include Google, CloudFlare, Uber, Dropbox, Docker, and Netflix. Many other startups and tech companies are also adopting Go for its scalability, performance, and simplicity.

What are some common use cases for Golang?

Golang is often used for building web servers, microservices, networking tools, and system utilities. Its concurrency features also make it well-suited for handling large amounts of data and processing tasks in parallel.

Is Golang the right choice for every application?

No. Although Golang is well suited to many use cases, there are some applications that don't require high performance or that could be better implemented in another language, like C++, C# or JavaScript, all of which we have decades of experience with.

Is Golang development cost effective?

Because of the way Golang was designed, developing applications with Golang is extremely productive and efficient, and results in safe software without runtime surprises. While having much better performance, Golang applications use far less server resources than other web development languages, like PHP and Python. Development with Golang saves you time and money with …

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Can Golang applications be implemented on my server?

Golang is cross platform and will build on a wide variety of operating systems. If you are running a modern operating system, more than likely you will be able to run Golang applications. There are pre-built binaries for the following:

FreeBSD 9.3
Linux 2.6.23 or later with glibc
Windows XP SP2 or later

Except for things like low-level operating system interface code, the run-time support is the same in all ports and includes a mark-and-sweep garbage collector, efficient array and string slicing, and support for efficient goroutines, such as stacks that grow and shrink on demand.

How will Golang development benefit me?

Development with Golang costs less from the start. In addition to the performance increase, often as much a 500%. Golang applications are quicker to develop, easier to maintain, safer and less prone to having runtime errors. Additional benefit of using Golang include:

Golang Standard Library: – Golang has an extensive standard library of functions, so you don't need rely on or be to be tied to external frameworks.
Concurrency: – Golang provides built-in concurrency, which enables you to carry out many processes at the same time via goroutines, which are much lighter in terms of resources than threads used by other languages like Java or C#.
Golang is safe. Golang will not tolerate unsafe direct access to pointers in memory, so Golang developers can avoid the type of memory allocation mistakes which might then lead to bugs. Errors show up at compile time, so there are no surprises, when your application is deployed and in production. As a result, you get neat safe code and don't have to spend time and money on looking for and fixing bugs as you would in other languages.

What is Golang well suited for?

Cloud Native Development: – Go's concurrency and networking features align with its high portability across various platforms. Which make Go an exceptional language for cloud computing. Many cloud platforms like Kubernetes were built with Go. Google Cloud also uses Go to enhance scalability and performance. Golang applications can be quickly launched and efficiently deployed to servers.
Upgrading Existing Infrastructure: – Legacy software and many old infrastructures were rewritten using Go to modernize what's become obsolete over time.
Multi-core Performance: – Golang is a scalable language and has multi-core processor support built-in, so your application can take advantage additional cores. It is able to utilize all available CPU cores out of the box.
Microservices: – The use of asynchronous input and output channels enable Golang applications to be interactive with web services without blocking web requests. Golang is well suited to building applications as a collection of microservices.
Web Services: - Golang has support for the reading and writing of JSON, multiplexing and secure connections built-in, which make the creation of an API and Web services much easier and more effective.

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