Ten Popular Go Projects

You may have heard of many of these projects and didn’t know that they are implemented in Go. The fact of the matter is that Go powers much of the cloud-native movement. Many of the mentioned projects have command-line programs to control and manage their functionality. By the end of this lesson, you should feel that you are in very good company.

Overview

Go made quite a name for itself in the world of distributed systems, containers, and cloud-native computing. This means that if you want to be on the bleeding edge and work on the most innovative projects in the hottest domains, Go is an excellent choice. Here are some of the most popular open-source projects on GitHub, strongly biased by my preferences.