Why the Storj Cloud Storage Service Switched to Golang

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The Go programming language owes its popularity to a number of factors: speed, robustness and versatility, according to the Golang advocates. In this latest The New Stack Makers podcast, we explore how distributed storage provider Storj uses Go to support its development and operations in its quest to become the “Airbnb of storage.” Guests for this episode are Storj Chief Technology Officer JT Olio and Storj Software Engineer Natalie Villasana.

At a previous company Olio worked at, Go served as a faster programming language than Python, which was that company’s previous programming language of choice.

I came in and was very interested in just sort of saying, ‘hey, let’s try out Go’…

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