Cloud Computing with Golang

The advent of Cloud Computation has been the most advantageous to Businesses. Its minimal up-front costs, industry-leading compute, storage and scalable networking capabilities are tempting reasons for Enterprises to opt for cloud computation. Cloud helps businesses face critical challenges by ensuring the smooth and efficient performance of applications, websites, infrastructural solutions and more. This can lead to improved efficiency, productivity, and agility for the business.

With so much going for Cloud computing, many Enterprises wish to migrate its existing applications to the cloud or build new ones on the cloud. However, many enterprises miss out on one decisive point, which is checking up on the programming language used to develop their cloud infrastructure. This can be a crucial factor as the performance of cloud applications are heavily dependent on the features of the programming language too.

Though there are several options such as SQL, XML, Rails, Haskell, Python and many more for writing a cloud-based application yet Golang is arguably one of the most popular choices. So, though there are many options to choose from let’s tell you why Golang is the best of the lot for Cloud Computing.

Concurrency: This foremost point wins Golang the most brownie points. One of the most significant advantages of cloud computing is to be able to provide concurrency. Due to this it demands distributed programming so that server does not get stuck serving one user at a time. Many languages handle concurrency, for instance, Java handles concurrency by guaranteeing Memory Safety. However, Golang treats Concurrency more efficiently by making it the developers job to consider memory safety by creating concurrently performing goroutines which then leads to a simple, safe and concurrent programming language.

Short Build time: Golang can achieve the same functionality as any other language with minimum lines of code written. This brings down its build time significantly. For cloud computing applications this is a significant factor as Code needs to be written and rewritten constantly. As a result, businesses can have their applications up and running in no time. Further, for product applications, the Time to Market is reduced significantly.

Scalable: Cloud applications need to be scalable to handle growing number of users. Owing to this factor the programming language must also possess inherent scalability features. Golang is highly scalable, because of its “goroutines.” Multiple threads are performed simultaneously in a quick and reliable manner because of these goroutines. As a result, the applications can handle vast loads of requests as and when the business scales up without demanding additional servers. This leads to saved costs and lower investments for the enterprise.

These factors put together makes Golang my preferred choice for developing Cloud Applications. If you wish to know more about Cloud Applications drop me a message, and I would be glad to discuss it with you.