Go + PostgreSQL
for platform engineers.
Go + Postgres is a sturdy backend default — fast, simple deployment, great concurrency. For platform engineers: High-throughput backend services. Single-binary deploy.
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For platform engineers building backend services, Go + Postgres is a sturdy default. Standard library is rich; pgx (the modern Postgres driver) is excellent; deployment is single-binary simple. Go scales to high-throughput services with predictable performance. Most backend services at platform companies (Cloudflare, HashiCorp, etc.) ship on Go.
platform engineers-specific gotchas
- ORMs are weaker than other ecosystems — embrace SQL
- Type system is verbose for some patterns
- Generics still feel new (added in 1.18)
- Web framework choice (Echo, Gin, Fiber) is overwhelming
- Single-binary deploys are operationally simple
A platform team ships a high-throughput API service in Go. Sustained 50k req/sec on a single instance. Memory footprint: 200MB. Deploy: scp the binary to any VM.
Common platform engineers questions.
How does Go compare to Rust for this?
Go for productivity; Rust for tighter resource control. Trade-off depends on team and workload.
What about TS / Bun for backend?
Real alternative. Bun is fast; TypeScript ecosystem is richer. Go wins on operational simplicity.
We've shipped this.
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