Golang In Ecommerce
Before we start with the understanding of how Golang is contributing in Ecommerce, let's understand what is Ecommerce
What is Ecommerce?
Ecommerce AKA electronic commerce is an activity of buying or selling products online ( On the Internet) electronically and transferring money and data to execute these transactions.
There are three main types of e-commerce:?
Golang In Ecommerce -
Golang is an Open Source programming language. 100% utilization of CPU is possible by using Golang. Golang is a robust system-level language used for programming across large-scale network servers and big distributed systems. Golang incorporates capabilities like ease of coding, ease, efficient code compilation, and efficient code execution.
The language was developed to deal with difficulties involved in large and scalable server and software systems. Golang helps in simplifying the process of software development. Golang is also said to be one of the languages for distributed computing.
Some of the major features of Golang -
There are many Ecommerce businesses that are using Golang to name some-
Let us understand more closely, how Golang is used in some of these Companies -
Golang at Alibaba -
Alibaba is Alibaba Group Holding Limited, also known as Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology.
Here Alibaba Group container engine "Pouch Container" is written in Golang. This PouchContainer can pack, deliver and run any application. It provides a lightweight runtime environment, strong isolation, and minimal overhead to applications. PouchContainer has been running on tens of thousands of nodes in Alibaba and helped stable all online transactions of Singles Day smoothly on millions of containers.
Golang at Allegro -
Allegro, the largest online shopping platform in Poland. There are More than 21 million registered customers and over 220 million visits per month putting this e-commerce platform in 13th place among the world's leaders in online sales
At Allegro, When the team was tasked to write a very fast cache service they decided to try something new and implement the service in Golang. Source
"Finally, we sped up our application from more than 2.5 seconds to less than 250 milliseconds for longest request."?
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- ?ukasz Drumiński,
Tech Lead @ Allegro
Golang at Mercadolibre
MercadoLibre, Inc. hosts the largest online commerce ecosystem in Latin America and is present in 18 countries. The Company has adopted Golang to help it scale and modernize its ecosystem.
At Mercadolibre, Using Golang allowed them to cut the number of servers from 32 down to just 4, speed-up build times 3x, and test suite runtimes from the 90s to just 3s. Source
"Go was just marvelous for us. It’s very powerful and very easy to learn, and with backend infrastructure, has been great for us in terms of scalability."?- Eric Kohan, Software Engineering Manager at MercadoLibre
Golang at Target
Target is an American retail corporation and one of America’s leading retailers. Target is believed to be a guest-oriented retail corporation and deliver an exceptional guest experience.
Some of the following things in Golang were the reason for Technical Team at Target language to be promoted to recommended status:
James Bell — an engineer working with guest reliability engineering in Target Technology Services said:-
We were all very pleased with the progress the Go project had achieved over the last two years and with the teams using Go.
Top 5 best Golang E-commerce Framework available -
1. Flamingo Commerce
2. QOR: the SDK for E-Commerce
3. Goyave
4. Iris Web Framework
5. Beego-eCommerce
You can also read more articles about Golang Usage/Application here-
Author:?Reemi Shirsath COO @?Scalent.io ?-?A Golang Specialized Development Company.
R&D Engineer at Aqua Security(GoLang)
2 年Samsung also using most of their services in Golang