We've invested a lot in Go at Segment and introducing a new language isn't cost-free, building the expertise, tools, and processes to work with a new technology

We've invested a lot in Go at Segment and introducing a new language isn't cost-free, building the expertise, tools, and processes to work with a new technology takes time and energy. It's way more time efficient for us to learn how to build better Go code. While this post focuses on the optimizations, this is only part of the development process, and Go is still an amazing tool to design, implement, and test software, and on top of that it gives us the ability to address those performance issues when they come up.