FromXToGo

This page links to blog posts, videos, and slide decks discussing moving a code base to Go from some other language.

Python

• Disqus: Trying out this Go thing
• Rackspace: Making OpenStack-Powered Rackspace Cloud Files Buzz With Hummingbird
• Repustate: From Python to Go: migrating our entire API
• Spacemonkey: Python to Go
• Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
• How to Convince Your Company to Go With Golang
• 5 Reasons Why We switched from Python To Go
• Stream: Why we switched from Python to Go
• Code Migration in Production: Rewriting the Sharding Layer of Uber’s Schemaless Datastore
• Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web backend from Python

Node

• Digg
• Uber (audio)
• Apex/TJ Holowaychuk
• ScaleDrone migrated all websocket servers from Node.js to Go
• From Node.js To Go, Why One Startup Made The Switch
• Why did Koding switch from Node.js to Go?
• Letting Go of Node.js
• Our Experience with Golang
• Interview with Steve Kaliski, CTO of Bowery - The tech stack that powers Bowery, Moving from Node.js to Go lang and more

C++

• dl.google.com by Brad Fitzpatrick
• Flywheel: Google's mobile image compression proxy
• Fulfilling a Pikedream: the ups of downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to Go

Ruby

• Toggl: Moving to Go
• Iron.io: How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
• Parse: How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity
• Timehop: Why Timehop Chose Go to Replace Our Rails App
• Scout App: FROM RUBY TO GO: A REWRITE FOR THE FUTURE
• Steven Yue: From Ruby's Grape to Martini in Go for Building Web API Server
• Soundcloud: Go at Soundcloud
• My impressions of Go
• Our Experience with Golang
• Rewriting our web analytics tracking infrastructure in Go

Java

• From Java to Go
• Why one developer switched from Java to Google Go

.NET

• Why I Left the .NET Framework

Scala

• CrowdStrike: Moving a Team from Scala to Go
• Making the move from Scala to Go, and why we’re not going back

PHP

• Switching from PHP to Go (read comments section)
• A Journey into Microservices
• ARDUINO WEB ARCHITECTURE, BACK TO THE FUTURE
• Why I switched from PHP to Go
• Marco switched to GoLang from PHP and Saved Money, why not you ?!
• Moving from PHP (Laravel) to Go
• When All You Have is an ElePHPant (Slides from ConFoo 2016)

Perl

• [How We Migrate From Perl to Golang] (https://medium.com/@alvintz.v/how-we-migrate-from-perl-to-golang-1520a4951392)

Haskell

• Golang’s Real-time GC in Theory and Practice

Clojure

• Rewriting an API Gateway Service from Clojure to Golang: AppsFlyer Experience Report