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This Is What Google Uses Go (Golang) For

Manpreet Singh
3 min readMay 8, 2022

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Welcome back! Google is a massive company that has developed both hardware and software products, they also developed the Golang programming language! So, let’s take at the things that Google actually uses Golang for!

Analytics

Another massive reason Google uses Go is for their analytics, why does Google use Go for their analytic projects? Since Go has a massive emphasis on speed, this makes it an awesome language for the handling of big data, here are a few different analyst positions that require Golang:

Even beyond Google, there are tons of data analyst positions that require Go experience, if you plan on becoming a data analyst, learning Go could definitely help your career.

Software Engineer

Next up we have software engineering, Google (much like other companies) utilize Go to develop out a bunch of software. Now, Google does require experience with other languages as well (including Java, Python and C++), so what makes Go different? Well, Go is built “in house” within Google, making it a very flexible language for both software engineering and web development. Below is a screenshot…

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Manpreet Singh
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