Back in December 2019, I first wrote about Goliath, Khan Academy’s project to migrate our backend from a Python 2 monolith to services written in Go, along with other changes needed to make that journey. I also wrote about how we’re making this change as incrementally as can be.

When we started Goliath, no one on the team knew Go beyond the experiments we ran to validate that Go would be a better choice for us than our other options. Today, all of our backend and full-stack engineers write Go, and our incremental delivery of Goliath has vaulted us over a big milestone: More than 500,000 lines of Go now running in production. This seemed like a good point to reflect on Go itself.

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