Who is using Go in enterprise?
Technology giants
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Google
Created Go in 2007 Uses Go for many internal tools and services Examples: Kubernetes, Docker (partially) Reference: Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
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Meta (Facebook)
Ent is a database schema as code tool written in Go Reference: Eli5: Ent schema as code
Cloud providers
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Uses Go for several services Example: AWS Lambda Reference: AWS Lambda Supports Go
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DigitalOcean
Command line tool for DigitalOcean API Reference: doctl
Financial services
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American Express
Adopted Go for some of its backend services Reference: How American Express is using Go
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Zerodha
Uses Go for its trading platform Reference: A Lesson in Niche Business DSLs at Scale
Media and entertainment
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Netflix
Rend is a memcached-compatible server and proxy written in Go Reference: Rend: Memcached-Compatible Server and Proxy
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Twitch
Heavily relies on Go for its video streaming infrastructure Reference: Go's March to Low-Latency, GC-Agnostic
Ride-sharing and delivery
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Uber
Uber's Go style guide Reference: uber-go/guide
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Einride
Einride uses Go for its microservices architecture Reference: Einride's Tech Radar
Cybersecurity
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Cloudflare
Extensively uses Go for its edge computing platform and other services Reference: Cloudflare's Go Projects
Productivity tools
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Dropbox
Rewrote some core components in Go for better performance Reference: Dropbox Go's tools
https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/04/26/eli5-ent-schema-as-code-go/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-for-aws-lambda/
https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl
https://go.dev/solutions/americanexpress
https://zerodha.tech/blog/a-lesson-in-niche-business-dsls-at-scale/
https://github.com/Netflix/rend
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2016/07/05/gos-march-to-low-latency-gc-a6fa96f06eb7/
https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md
https://einride.engineering/docs/tech-radar/backend#go
