Brad Fitzpatrick, a prominent Go developer and Google engineer actually gave a talk covering some of this at GoCon Tokyo last year: http://talks.golang.org/201

Brad Fitzpatrick, a prominent Go developer and Google engineer actually gave a talk covering some of this at GoCon Tokyo last year: http://talks.golang.org/2014/gocon-tokyo.slide http://talks.golang.org/2014/gocon-tokyo.slide Skip to slide 32 for examples of different tasks for which Go is proving to be efficient.