Why Go for our backends
Simplicity, single-binary deployment and a mature ecosystem: the reasons behind our server-side choice.
Our backend APIs will be written in Go. Not a fashion choice, but the result of simple criteria.
One binary, zero surprises
Go compiles to a static binary. Deployment boils down to copying one file into a minimal container: no runtime to install, no dependency versions drifting between the dev machine and production.
Readability as a language constraint
Go is deliberately feature-poor. You can read a colleague’s code (or your own six months later) without decoding tricks. For a small team that wants to move fast for a long time, that is a compounding advantage.
A mature server ecosystem
HTTP, JSON, SQL, observability: the standard library and the ecosystem cover the essentials. We will use the Iris framework for our APIs, and we will document how that choice holds up in practice.