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I wonder why they advertise the "platform"/implementation language so clearly (in this case Go). It shouldn't matter for the users? I get sceptical, as if the only reason they exist is to provide the same service but in a new implementation.


Performance. That thing is _fast_ when compared to a Ruby-based stack.


Does this really affect end users? In the end, this decision should mostly mean less servers, no...?


Sysadmins are people too :)




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