Comment by jaegerpicker

While I'm pretty sure that Go is much faster than python in nearly all tasks, I'm still skeptical that a) they built a full replacement of the system in only a week and b) that they didn't improve the algorithm in the go code. I work at a python/django shop and I recently updated a process that could only handle 5000 transactions in 5 minutes to be able to handle over 100,000 in just under 3 minutes. This was all in python would go been a lot faster? Sure but how much is the new code path and how much is the advantage of golang?