Thanks to the adoption of Docker, Dropbox and other well known SV companies.

Even Microsoft is now contributing to the eco-system due to their collaboration with Docker. Also Joe Duffy (from MSR Midori) tweets about his Go experiences.

Personally I prefer other languages, but I am surely happy to see more Go and less unsafe languages being used.

I don't have any numbers to support this claim, but it's certainly true that we are seeing a lot of software being developed in Go, and network software in particular.

Examples of services that typically would have been written in C/C++ but are written in Go: Docker, YouTube Vitess (a MySQL proxy), CockroachDB (a distributed and strongly consistent SQL database).

Other examples of companies using Go for network services: Dropbox (most backend), CloudFlare (Railgun and other things), Uber (geofencing), Bitly (messaging with NSQ), Disqus (realtime commenting), DigitalOcean, Heroku, SoundCloud, Dailymotion.

There is also Netflix using it for a proxy:

> The decision to use Go was deliberate, because we needed something that had lower latency than Java (where garbage collection pauses are an issue) and is more productive for developers than C, while also handling tens of thousands of client connections. Go fits this space well.

Source: http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-caching...

Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4l0fv2/the_netflix_...