The document discusses the creation and advantages of the Go programming language. It was created by Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer at Google to address limitations they found in other languages for building the type of large, networked software needed at Google. Some key advantages of Go include being statically typed and scalable, readable and productive without excessive keywords, supporting networking and multiprocessing without requiring integrated development environments, and having a minimal footprint.

1. Programming Language For Cloud

2. Certifications mean Nothing

4. 201x Computing Landscape

5. Ken Thomson
Rob Pike
Robert Griesemer

6. “We realized that the kind of software we
build at Google is not always served well by
the languages we had available,”
Pike said in 2011.
“Robert Griesemer, Ken Thompson, and
myself decided to make a language that
would be very good for writing the kinds of
programs we write at Google.”

7. 1. be statically typed, scalable to large systems (as
Java and C++)
2. be productive and readable, without too many
mandatory keywords and repetition
3. not require integrated development
environments, but support them well
4. support networking and multiprocessing

8. Why we choose go?

9. Budget
People
Tools

10. Change from
Big Upfront Design
to
Evolution Architect
“Start Small”
“Test Build In”
“Small Foot Print”

14. https://www.iron.io/go-after-2-years-in-production/Go after 2 years in Production

15. Modernize developer skill
With
Least effort
“Same experience”
“Simple”
“Strong Type”
“Modern library”
“Very active community”

17. “Killer Application”

18. “Killer Application”

19. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers
“Very active community”

21. Minimum Effort
for
Operation
“Single Binary”
“Cross Platform Build”
“Super Fast (Compile)”