Go at Grab Taxi

speaker: Arul, VP of Engineering for Grab Taxi event: Friday Hacks by NUS Hackers

early architecture

to validate the business idea RoR + MySQL, sidekiq for background processing ran into limits of a monolithic architecture

chose Go for next architecture

concurrency, extensive standard library

result of using Go

reduced number of instances

go concurrency with small demos

prime sieve in go, add one filter per prime