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what revenue / profitable google services are actually relying on golang ?

• deleted 1y ago
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• parliament32 1y ago
  Kubernetes as a whole is the best example I can think of, given that it's deployed in most modern tech companies and every cloud provider offers a managed service.
  • Cthulhu_ 1y ago
    That's an application (as is Docker, also built in Go), but the question was about internal Google services and... we don't know because company secrets, but it's likely on the rise as it was written as a replacement for C++ which was their previous main language for backend services alongside Java/Kotlin. One source with the charming name "assbuttass" [0] says all new services are written in Go, with a follow-up by "deathmaster99" saying only 10% of code is Go, but this was a year ago and even 10% at Google's scale probably represents tens of millions of LOC. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1c9fhet/how_much_go_is_used_at_google/ https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1c9fhet/how_much_go...
• kelseyhightower 1y ago
  Google Cloud products including GKE (Kubernetes), Cloud Run/Functions, the gcloud CLI, and a number of other utilities and control plane components sit it direct revenue paths. In the case of Cloud Run/Functions (Go support) and GKE, those products generate direct revenue, and the amount is much higher than you would think.
• 0xjnml 1y ago
  YouTube is one such.