https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/infrastructure/ Recent content in Infrastructure on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:51:46 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2016/why-golang-great-for-network-services/ Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:51:46 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2016/why-golang-great-for-network-services/ I’ve been using Go professionally for over a year now. While I’m not a fan of every decision made by the language, I will admit that Go gets a lot of things right for one segment of the industry - network daemons and similar systems software. Google’s ethos are engineering solid and reliable services at scale; various design decisions make Go well suited for this. Go favors composition at multiple levels.