Typeform

• Go because it's easy and simple, facilitates collaboration , and also it's fast, scalable, powerful.
• Visual Studio Code because it has one of the most sophisticated Go language support plugins.
• Vim because it's Vim
• Git because it's Git
• Docker and Docker Compose because it's quick and easy to have reproducible builds/tests with them
• Arch Linux because Docker for Mac/Win is a disaster for the human nervous system, and Arch is the coolest Linux distro so far
• Stack Overflow because of Copy-Paste Driven Development
• JavaScript and Python when a something needs to be coded for yesterday
• PhpStorm because it saves me like 300 "Ctrl+F" key strokes a minute
• cURL because terminal all the way

Typeform initially was a #PHP #Symphony monolith. For the past 3 years, we have been migrating to #Golang microservices and we are almost almost done.

Abstracts the frontend from data fetching complexities of a microservice architecture, plus it gives more granular control over which data is fetched and when.

90% of our backend code is #Go