Simple, fast, and built for concurrent backend services
Go (Golang) is a compiled, statically-typed language designed by Google for simplicity and performance, with concurrency built into the language itself. It compiles to a single static binary, which makes deployment straightforward, and it's the language much of the modern cloud infrastructure ecosystem (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) is written in.
Go's minimal syntax and built-in concurrency model make it well-suited to backend services that need to handle many simultaneous connections efficiently, without the operational complexity of managing a runtime or garbage collection tuning that heavier languages require.
We use Go for backend services and infrastructure tooling where deployment simplicity and concurrent performance are priorities a natural fit alongside the Docker and Kubernetes-based infrastructure we already build on.