For me, the really interesting point of the article was less "yay, it's faster than Python" (which is generally undisputed), but more that (to paraphrase): "I

For me, the really interesting point of the article was less "yay, it's faster than Python" (which is generally undisputed), but more that (to paraphrase): "I didn't know anything about Go other than 'it sounds cool', so I decided to rewrite this very important bit of Disqus' infrastructure. In one week, from start to finish, I had it implemented, tested, and deployed and improved latencies by several orders of magnitude and reduced the capacity requirement from four fully loaded servers to 20% of one!" To be able to say that is pretty impressive, worth writing about, and definitely interesting to me as someone who wants to see Go used more. Disqus is well known, has lots of traffic, and so a recommendation from them carries a lot more weight than some random benchmarks. (As cool as they are.)