
7/3/2012 · John Graham-Cumming
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This post details the technical implementation of Cloudflare's Railgun software, specifically highlighting the choice and benefits of using the Go programming language. It explains how Go's concurrency primitives (goroutines and channels) and its object-oriented features (interfaces) were instrumental in building a performant and scalable solution for caching dynamic content. The post also emphasizes the ease of distribution due to Go's single executable output and the richness of its standard library.