Posts Tagged ‘Go’
Go After 2 Years in Production
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies to use Go (golang) in production and we didn’t know what to expect in the long run, but so far, so great.I talked a little about about this in a previous post…
Read MoreGoSF Meetup: Canonical + Go 1.1 + a growing Go community
Travis Reeder from Iron.io kicks off the GoSF Meetup (5/9) Iron.io is the lead organizer of GoSF – which is a meetup specially centered around Go programming language. GoSF has been around for just over a year and it’s apparent it’s becoming a key group within the developer community. We base this view not just on the…
Read MoreHow We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us to start getting some pretty heavy load and we quickly reached the limits of our Ruby setup. Long story short, we switched to Go. For…
Read MoreIronWorker Goes Hyperpolyglot – Adds Java, Node and Go Support
A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist Richard Hudson in 2003 and derives from the word “polyglot”, meaning one who can speak multiple languages. Today marks a major step forward for IronWorker as we’ve opened the platform to a wide array of…
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