In our case, our original product was a web app, written in Scala, as our data starting growing, we had to move from real time queries to our database plus some data manipulation to precalculating/storing the data in a ready to server manner. This worked well for a while, but eventually our backend process was consuming large amounts of memory. This was the a good point for us to try Go, so we switch part of that processing to Go to see how it goes, worse case scenario, a crash wasn't going to affect our main product, we could still run the old code. Having a safe fallback was key for adoption.
But before we used Go at work, I personally made sure I was comfortable enough with it that I could answer any questions our team had, or at least being able to go look for the answer (this mailing list, stackoverflow, etc). The move was great, our incoming data has grown a lot more than what it was 3 years ago, and I keep improving the go program from time to time. We still run our web application in Scala, but a few months ago we also started handling a couple of specific pages in Go, again, if those pages fail, they are not critical, so it wouldn't be a reason to stop migrating. A few weeks ago I got our CTO onboard with Go, which was a big milestone, so we'll be writing more and more of the web app in Go in the near/mid future. In short, if your company doesn't like taking risks, you can go slow in migrating to Go, have safe guards and know where to go for help. Thanks Diego On Monday, December 19, 2016 at 8:03:43 AM UTC-5, Tieson Molly wrote: > > What arguments or factors have contributed to your company adopting Go? > > Many businesses see switching to a new language or even using a new > language side by side with their existing language choice as a business > risk. > > Best regards, > > Ty > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
