Why Go Was the Right Choice for CockroachDB (2015) (cockroachlabs.com)

Needs a (2015).

FYI, this was written in 2015. Can we update the title?

I would be interesting to do a comparison of bugs found / fixed in CDB vs TiKV [1] (written in Rust) to see how much of an impact thread & memory safety have.

[1] https://github.com/tikv/tikv

Coming up next - why Go was a wrong choice and Rust is the right one