Power Up Your Cloud Computing With Golang

3 min readAug 21, 2020

When you are deploying your application on Cloud all that you want is something that will deal with the concurrency issues. Cloud computing systems are innately highly scalable and share the resources. The only trouble that Cloud computing systems face is related to the concurrency, while the resources are shared and we need to access them at that time coordination issues are raised which impacts the processing of every related application in the cloud. And here is where Golang comes in the picture. As there is the requirement of the programming language which will have the capability to develop highly scalable, highly performant, reliable and concurrent applications

Steve Francia, Product lead for Golang at Google said-

Go the language of cloud infrastructure, it’s also even becoming the language of the entire cloud.

Golang plays a major role for the enterprises by developing highly scalable and concurrent cloud computing systems

Golang is also called as “Language of Cloud” due to its concurrency feature. Concurrency is not only a feature available in Golang there are some other languages too that support concurrency, but the only difference lies in the approach. Concurrency is highly emphasized here because we don’t want our server to get stuck and restricted while serving only one user at a time.

Let’s take an example — You have two servers and at one same time both the servers want to access the same resource that will happen if you are using Java. Java assures you with the memory safety where else in Golang there is no assurance of memory safety provided by the language, it is developer’s lookout to consider memory safety and which results in much more efficiency than Java along with concurrency. Golang prefers some contrasting approaches, unlike the other available programming language.

Golang offers a simple, reliable, concurrent developing approach but at the same time, it does not support bad programming.

Millions and millions of computation process on the cloud every second and in order to provide reduced run time environment becomes critical for the cloud service providers. Golang is the best fit for the Scalable network servers and large distributed System for Cloud.

Ruchi Malik from Choozle said -

Go makes it very easy to scale as a company. This is very important because, as our engineering team grows, each service can be managed by a different unit.

When Golang was developed various things like dependency management, compatibility with modern applications/system, scalability, high performance, robustness, reliability, simplicity, etc was taken under consideration.

Some of the Major Benefits of Golang for Cloud Computing Are:-

Built-in concurrency helps to take advantage of multicore processors
Fast Build Times which helps in iterative development
Addressing Tradeoff: Development cycle time and Performance of server
Lower Memory Utilization
Lower CPU Utilization
Helps Server with Instant Start uptime
Cheaper to Run ( pay-as-you-go)
Standard Idiomatic APIs
High Performance
High Productivity
Strong Ecosystem

Standard libraries of Golang includes Packages for common and useful needs like:-

HTTP servers and Clients
JSON/ XML
SQL Databases
Security/ Encryption

Go Runtime include tools like:-

Race detection
Benchmarking
Profiling
Code generation

Some of the major Cloud providers that use Golang for their services are:-

GCP
AWS
Azure

Golang Tools for Cloud Computing:-

Docker
Kubernetes

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Google Cloud uses Golang for Go on Google Cloud Platform
Capital One uses Golang to power the Credit Offers API
Dropbox uses Golang for Dropbox libraries
Twitch uses Golang for Go’s march to low-latency GC
Uber uses Golang for AresDB, Geofence, Peloton

And this is how Golang can Power Up Your Cloud Computing

Power Up Your Cloud Computing With Golang

Some of the Major Benefits of Golang for Cloud Computing Are:-

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Written by Reemi Shirsath

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