HIGHLOAD GOLANG

AVADA MEDIA offers services for the development of high-load projects and high-load websites on GoLang, an open source tool from Google. The programmers of our company use the tool to develop high-load services and high-performance components for Web, Android and iOS applications.

Golang is a relatively young programming language developed by Google in 2007. However, more and more companies are looking at this tool and choosing it as their primary language for building their web products and applications.

The reason Google thought about launching a personal programming language was to increase productivity with multi-core processors, large codebases, and networking hardware. During the development process, the experts wanted to do two things at once – get rid of the shortcomings of other languages, and preserve all their strengths. The developers created Golang with all the disadvantages of C / C ++ in mind. At the same time, they tried to take full advantage of other languages.

Some features of this programming language:

• From C / C ++, he borrowed static typing and execution efficiency
• Usability and source code readability similar to Python and Javascript
• High performance when working with networked and multiprocessor machines

According to the founders of Golang, this programming language follows a simple philosophy that fits into one line: “One problem should have one solution.” This approach makes the tool an intuitive and comprehensive language that demonstrates high data processing performance.

Despite differing opinions about the characteristics of Golang and the possibilities of its use, this programming language has already attracted the attention of world-renowned enterprises. Among them are such giants as the BBC, Uber, Docker, Intel, Medium, Baidu and Alibaba, all of which use highload GoLang apps.

Why is Golang so good at developing high-load projects? It is an open source programming language that allows you to develop simple, reliable, and efficient software. Let’s list its strengths:

• High compilation speed

Golang has a high compilation speed. This is achieved by converting the program code directly into machine-level instructions, which does not require interpretation each time the application is launched. For example, when you open a page on a website, JavaScript is reinterpreted.

The language has a powerful error checking feature that can tell developers whether their code will work or not before compiling. This feature allows you to save time searching for errors hidden in the mass of code.

The compiler can run programs on a machine with various operating systems using simple commands. This feature makes deploying code to the server a mere formality: all it takes is one executable file.

• Scalability

Scalability was one of the requirements in the development of Golang. Concurrency was one of the challenges that the developers dealt with brilliantly. The tool has specially designed features that handle concurrency easily, namely Goroutine and Channels.

Goroutine is a built-in feature that can run alongside other features. You can run hundreds of thousands of Goroutines at the same time on one device and Golang smoothly launches all of them.

Channels, in turn, allow Goroutine to communicate with each other. Thus, the program can perform the assigned tasks in the best way.

• Simplicity and safety

Golang is an easy to understand programming language: easy to write and easy to read other developers’ code. Thanks to “one solution to one problem”, the tool is very convenient for novice programmers. A set of standard libraries contains everything you need, including a web server. This simplicity provides a high level of security. By using the tool, programmers can forget about all the hassle of complex and hard-to-find bugs that tend to occur in more dynamic languages. In addition, Golang has other useful features, including a garbage collector that keeps track of how memory works with code. The result is clean and reliable code.

• Cloud services and containerization

The Golang programming language allows you to use all the functions and capabilities that cloud service providers have: AWS S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EC2, etc. To do this, you need to connect the Golang SDK by taking it from the official source of the service provider. Moreover, you can also easily run your Golang application on Kubernetes using Docker containerization.

The developers of AVADA-MEDIA have extensive experience in the design of high-load systems that handle a large volume of server requests. We carefully design software architectures to optimize the performance of websites with a lot of daily visitors and calculations. Efficiency, scalability and reliability are the main features of the high-load systems we develop.