Will ActiveGo come packaged with common database drivers Oracle, Postgresql, etc. and the usual assortment of NoSQL databases?
On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 12:55:57 PM UTC-5, je...@activestate.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, March 30, 2012 at 10:27:36 AM UTC-7, hcatlin wrote: >> >> Just thought I'd stop in and post something saying "hi" to the group. >> I work at >> Moovweb where we power some of the biggest e-commerce sites' mobile >> experience >> on our platform. Our platform has super strong demands on it and our >> business is >> growing at a nearly exponential rate. >> >> This past summer, I made the decision to switch all of our internal >> software to Go >> after being persuaded by our Senior Architect, Zhigang Chen. Of >> course, knowing that Go >> was beta and that the future of the company was being bet on Go was >> (and is) amazingly >> stressful. >> >> The library ecosystem was a little weak for our needs when we first >> showed up so >> we've since released a Regexp library called Rubex that makes regular >> expressions >> 2-3x faster, we've released Gokogiri which is a libxml wrapper library >> for XML/HTML >> parsing, and GVM the go version manager so that we can work with code >> bases >> on various versions of Go. >> >> A couple observations: >> * New users/employees have learned Go very quickly. +20! >> * Found out about breakage in 32-bit while in production. -10! >> * Had to write our own libraries for some basic stuff. -5! >> * Performs very well in production (only on 64-bit). +10! >> >> Man, so much to say... this bullet list might go on and on. >> >> I mostly just wanted to say that to us Go is not a hobbyist language. >> Its a complex >> build environment for us with dependency management and 5 full time >> developers >> writing code daily in it. >> >> We didn't build "some small part" of our platform in Go... its the >> heart of our tech. >> Our SDK is a compiled binary that we are packaging and sending out to >> our >> clients and integration partners. Our production system is handling >> millions of pages >> a day and millions of dollars of ecommerce a month. >> >> We've bet on Go big time... and will continue to bet on it. We will >> continue to release >> new code and we will continue to try and mature the community and tool >> set so that >> we can deal with real life issues. >> >> I'd love to hear if other companies are doing a similar thing. >> >> http://site.moovweb.com // public site >> http://github.com/moovweb // public software repo >> >> -hampton (@hcatlin) >> >> >> Hi Hampton, > > I can assure you some big bets are being laid on Go as it has so much > going for it. My thoughts are here (I'm product guy at ActiveState) and why > we at ActiveState are "all-in" on Go: http://bit.ly/2gD4zxp > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2gD4zxp&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEmiaVgdQvofdE91EaLfyoWqU1Ugw> > > Cheers, > > -JR > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
