New Blog: Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB

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Nov 3, 2015, 2:57:22 PM11/3/15
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The first question many developers ask us is what our experience has been writing a distributed database in Go, a garbage-collected language. JVM garbage collection is notoriously expensive, so wouldn’t we be risking CockroachDB’s performance by building it in Go?
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