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We've been using Go in production for 4 or so months at customer.io and have been tremendously happy with the performance. My cofounder will rewrite some core f

by sudonim 13y ago

We've been using Go in production for 4 or so months at customer.io and have been tremendously happy with the performance. My cofounder will rewrite some core function in go, deploy it to prod and get a 10x improvement. We are total converts.

dbaupp 13y ago
10x improvement compared to what?
- jrallison 13y ago
  Our MVP was written in Ruby.
  - danieldk 13y ago
    You know that nearly any compiled language would give such speed-ups compared to Ruby?
    - pjmlp 13y ago
      Maybe even Turbo Basic would do the trick! :)
    - jrallison 13y ago
      Of course, which was the main driver to moving to a compiled language. We just happened to choose Go :) I've done a lot of Java and C++ in the past, and wasn't looking to go back to either of those.