Golang

bitcrowd adopted Go in 2017. Since then, we’ve delivered Go-powered APIs, microservices, CLI tools, and data pipelines to production, helping teams modernise their architecture, improve performance, and stabilise their engineering processes.

Why Go?

Go is widely appreciated for its clarity, performance, and ability to turn ideas into reliable production systems quickly. Designed at Google, it combines a minimal, readable syntax with the speed of a compiled language, making it easy for teams to write code that is both approachable and efficient. Concurrency is built in from the start: goroutines and channels make it straightforward to handle thousands of requests, background jobs, and data pipelines without the usual complexity of threading and callbacks.

Go’s standard library and tooling streamline development: Batteries-included support for HTTP, JSON, testing, profiling, and concurrency means fewer external dependencies and more consistent codebases. A single static binary per service simplifies deployment and operations, fitting naturally with containerized and cloud-native environments.

In an ecosystem full of options, Go has become a foundation for modern infrastructure: projects like Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus are powered by it, and companies such as Google, Uber, and Cloudflare use Go for critical systems. Its strong community, focus on backwards compatibility, and steady evolution make it a dependable long-term choice for teams that care about speed, scalability, and maintainability in their backend and platform engineering.

  • Simplicity and clarity

    A minimalistic language design that is easy to learn, easy to read, and easy to maintain.

  • High performance

    Compiles to fast, efficient machine code with low overhead.

  • First-class concurrency

    Goroutines and channels enable scalable, lightweight parallelism.

  • Fast compilation

    Extremely quick build times keep development loops tight and productive.

  • Robust standard library

    Comprehensive, consistent tooling for networking, testing, cryptography, profiling, and more.

  • Static binaries

    Deployment as single, self-contained executables with no runtime dependencies.

  • Cloud Native

    The backbone of tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, making it ideal for modern infrastructure.

  • Strong tooling

    Built-in formatters, linters, test frameworks, and module management promote consistency across teams.

Why bitcrowd:

bitcrowd started as a ruby on rails company in 2010. Since then, we have launched countless ruby and rails, Elixir and Go applications into production, and helped many companies to bring their development on track.

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With every client, we get to know new work environments. It gives us the chance to see our ideas play out, and learn every time we create a new solution. With this experience, we can help your team get on and build better products.

We offer consultancy tailored to you, from a team that has been building and deploying live ruby and rails products since 2010.

We fit into your workflow to improve the aspects that need it — maybe that’s code review, process improvements, or project management.

We can also help directly with development: planning & completing individual features, writing tests, and helping your developers overcome challenges in their own tasks.

If you’re excited by what we’re building and want to learn more, don’t hesitate to reach out. Drop us an email or schedule a conversation to discover how our tools can enhance your projects and streamline your workflow!

Community

bitcrowd developers take an active part in the local and online Go, Elixir, Ruby on Rails and ML community. We regularly attend and present at local meetups and conferences, and write blog posts about issues and solutions we’ve found interesting.

Want more insights? Read our Blog!

Need help with a Go project?

Get in touch, we have the experience to keep building on Go foundations.

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