Hire expert freelance GoLang developers for your company's projects

Hire Golang developers to boost web development and cloud service projects with Cad Crowd professional staffing agency

While it’s true that you can use just about every programming language in the cloud, some languages do stand out from the crowd in terms of functionality and performance; Golang, developed by Google, is one of those languages. Cad Crowd is your staffing agency of choice to discover, select, and deliver only the most talented Golang developers to your team. 

What is GoLang?

Let's start with the name. The programming language is technically called "Go," but more popularly known as GoLang. According to Google, the moniker came from its former domain name, golang.org, unsurprisingly because go.org wasn't available to the company. The current domain name is "go.dev," but the moniker sticks.

Golang is open-source and primarily used for the development of web applications, cloud-based services, and networking systems. And since it has the ability to deliver fast startup time and run without a virtual machine (VM), Golang is an excellent choice for building microservices as well. It's an explicit, statically typed programming language modeled after C and inspired by the simplicity and productivity of Python programming. A few unique characteristics that set Golang apart from the rest are:

• Static Typing. The main feature of Golang is its static typing, which requires coders to declare variables with the data types at the time of their compilation. This mechanism has a real advantage in that it helps developers catch mistakes early on, promoting code safety in general. Static typing also simplifies code maintenance tasks and improves code readability.
• Concurrent Programming. It's a method to execute multiple tasks simultaneously, either in partial order or out of order. The system is made possible by lightweight processes known as "goroutines" and an assortment of packages to manage dependency in an efficient manner. Concurrent programming is designed to solve such problems as effort duplication, slow build time, uncontrolled dependencies, cross-language development, and the typical difficulties associated with automatic tools. Golang also has built-in features or channels to facilitate the synchronization and communication work between goroutines.
• Garbage Collection. Golang utilizes a garbage collector tool to help with memory management. The tool automatically detects memory usage and recovers available spaces, saving developers from the ever-present task of freeing memory. An efficient and automatic memory management system minimizes the chances of problems with memory leaks.

With Golang, programmers and developers can run unit tests in parallel with the already-written codes for debugging and quality assurance purposes. Although the programming language is intended primarily for the server-side development of web apps and cloud-based services, the gomobile tool allows you to take advantage of all those advantages when creating mobile apps. The tool can transpile Golang code into native code for the Android platform, but you may find it lacking in terms of features and options when compared to alternatives like Java and Python.

Do you actually need GoLang?

Golang might not be the most widely used programming language, but it has the capability to be a replacement for Python, Java, and PHP in certain situations. Common applications of Golang include:

Web development

Concurrent processing is Golang's biggest selling point to boost its popularity in web development. With goroutines for multitask processing (and channels to organize all those processes), developers can improve the web's responsiveness and performance a great deal. It's used not only by Google, which invented the programming language in the first place but also by a few other major web-based companies like SoundCloud and Netflix. SoundCloud, as a music and audio streaming platform, capitalizes on Golang's capabilities to develop and deploy microservices. Golang is not the only technology Netflix uses, yet the programming language contributes significantly to its web infrastructure, which benefits greatly from the concurrent programming feature.

Networking

Some notable examples of networking applications and projects built with Golang include Caddy and Traefik. The former is an extensive web server that is both cross-platform and open-source, whereas the latter is a load balancer and a reverse proxy for web apps.

Cloud services

Thanks to its lightweight nature and automatic memory management, Golang makes for an excellent choice for cloud services development. When you build a cloud-native application, you want a programming language that offers efficient resource utilization and ease of deployment; Golang gives you both. In case you don't know, Kubernetes and Docker are also written in Golang.

Microservices

A microservice application must be structured as a suite of multiple small services; all of them can communicate with each other and run independently at the same time. Golang’s fast compilation time and lightweight processing are perfect if you need an application that can access multiple services simultaneously without blocking any requests. As far as microservices are concerned, Golang is known to be part of the technology stack used by Uber and Twitch platforms. 

Data science

Golang might not be as prominent as R or Python in the field of data science, but it still has a market niche in data analysis and machine learning applications. When developers are working with a massive dataset, and yet the performance cannot suffer too much due to processing difficulty, Golang offers real benefits in terms of efficiency and speed. It's still a long way until Golang matches the features and functionality of either Python or R for data science applications, but the programming language is here to stay. 

If your next project has anything to do with web development, microservices, networking, or perhaps data science applications, the logical thing to do is to hire a Golang developer to set the work in motion right away. Competent developers can make the most of a programming language. In the case of Golang, the developer should be able to harness all its powers to deliver real competitive advantages in every shape and form, for example:

• Versatility: Golang’s cross-platform characteristics and range of hardware-compatibility features make it the ideal instrument for developing a wide variety of web apps and software solutions for modern systems.
• Scalability: It has been said time and again that goroutines, along with their concurrent and autonomous functions, position Golang as a reliable programming language for web development and microservices. It also comes with automatic memory consumption management, which eventually leads to better application scalability.
• Speed: The compilation bypasses bytecode and goes directly to machine code. This is speed optimization in its most basic yet effective fashion, ensuring swift execution and overall accelerated application development.
• Simplicity: Golang only has 25 keywords to declare all sorts of code elements. There are no convoluted variables and overly intricate syntax. To some extent, the clear procedural approach and comprehensive specifications help developers achieve mastery in a relatively short period of time. Thanks to the simplicity, a developer who specializes in Golang has a real chance of making substantial contributions within just a matter of weeks after joining your project.
• Sustainability: legible codes with well-structured syntax and a straightforward approach help ease software updates and maintenance, even when your team undergoes changes over time. Even new developers will not likely get overwhelmed by the code complexity.

In addition to the standard library, Golang has an expansive ecosystem of integrated development environments (IDEs), editors, and plugins accessible via GitHub. An active online community of developers promises a bounty of third-party tools to improve and update your application in the foreseeable future.

Hire with us

Cad Crowd is here to lend a hand and improve your chances of acquiring the right candidates for the job. We take pride in what we do as a staffing agency, and nothing pleases us more than the satisfaction of an onboarding done well, with the accurate placement of a talented professional to utilize Golang to its full potential. Give us a call any day of the week for a free quote, and then we can discuss in detail the specifics of your hiring needs so that our recruiters can devise a custom staffing solution that meets your exact requirements for timeline, budgets, and types of employment.