Gopher Con 2015: Peter Bourgon Go Kit: A Standard Library for Distributed Programming

Go has emerged as the language of the server, but it remains underrepresented in large, consumerfocused companies like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and SoundCloud. These organizations have largely adopted JVMbased tech stacks for their business logic, owing in large part to libraries and ecosystems that directly support their serviceoriented architectures. To reach its next level of success, Go needs more than simple primitives and idioms. It needs a comprehensive toolkit, for coherent distributed progra