Golang Tools

• Go includes the same sort of debugging, testing, and code-vetting tools as many language distributions. The Go distribution includes, among other tools

• go build-> which builds Go binaries using only information in the source files themselves, no separate makefiles
• go test-> for unit testing and microbenchmarks
• go fmt-> for formatting code
• go get-> for retrieving and installing remote packages
• go vet-> a static analyzer looking for potential errors in code
• go run-> a shortcut for building and executing code
• godoc-> for displaying documentation or serving it via HTTP
• gorename-> for renaming variables, functions, and so on in a type-safe way
• go generate-> a standard way to invoke code generators

• It also includes profiling and debugging support, runtime instrumentation (to, for example, track garbage collection pauses), and a race condition tester.

• Lightning Network -> a Bitcoin network that allows for near-instantaneous Bitcoin transactions and scalability.
• CockroachDB -> an open source, survivable, strongly consistent, scale-out SQL database.
• Docker -> a set of tools for deploying Linux containers
• Doozer -> a lock service by managed hosting provider Heroku
• Geth software -> a golang implementation of Ethereum-protocol blockchain technology, which implements a shared world computing platform.
• Gogs-> self-hosted Git Service.
• InfluxDB-> an open source database specifically to handle time series data with high availability and high performance requirements.
• Juju -> a service orchestration tool by Canonical, packagers of Ubuntu Linux
• Kubernetes -> container management software
• OpenShift -> a cloud computing platform as a service by Red Hat
• Packer -> a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration
• Snappy -> a package manager for Ubuntu phone developed by Canonical.
• Syncthing -> an open-source file synchronization client/server application

• Beego -> high-performance web framework in Go, used for web apps and backend services.
• Martini -> package for web applications/services.
• Gorilla -> a web toolkit for Go.
• Enduro/X ASG -> a cluster middleware, application server, distributed transaction and multi-processing framework for Go.

• AeroFS -> private cloud filesync appliance provider which migrated some microservices from Java to Go with major memory footprint improvements
• Chango -> a programmatic advertising company uses Go in its real-time bidding systems.
• Cloud Foundry, a platform as a service
• CloudFlare-> for their delta-coding proxy Railgun, their distributed DNS service, as well as tools for cryptography, logging, stream processing, and accessing SPDY sites.
• CoreOS -> a Linux-based operating system that utilizes Docker containers.
• Couchbase-> Query and Indexing services within the Couchbase Server
• Dropbox -> migrated some of their critical components from Python to Go
• Google -> for many projects, notably including download server dl.google.com
• MercadoLibre -> for several public APIs.
• MongoDB -> tools for administering MongoDB instances
• Netflix -> for two portions of their server architecture
• Novartis -> for an internal inventory system
• Plug.dj -> an interactive online social music streaming website.
• Replicated -> Docker based PaaS for creating enterprise, installable software.
• SendGrid -> a Boulder, Colorado-based transactional email delivery and management service.
• SoundCloud -> for "dozens of systems"
• Splice -> for the entire backend (API and parsers) of their online music collaboration platform.
• ThoughtWorks -> some tools and applications around continuous delivery and instant messages (CoyIM).
• Twitch.tv -> for their IRC-based chat system (migrated from Python).
• Uber -> for handling high volumes of geofence-based queries.
• Zerodha -> for real time peering and streaming of market data