The latest articles on DEV Community by T Abbas Khan (@xtabbas). https://dev.to/xtabbas https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F143150%2F004154e0-5b58-4f91-9323-097636245aae.jpeg https://dev.to/xtabbas en T Abbas Khan Sun, 30 Jun 2019 16:30:54 +0000 https://dev.to/xtabbas/which-language-should-i-choose-21kc https://dev.to/xtabbas/which-language-should-i-choose-21kc <p>Hi guys! So I am starting up on a new application and want to discuss which programming language should I choose to build my server side infrastructure on.</p> <p>The architecture will be based on containers and Kubernetes for future scalability. The idea of the application is very simple with a few CRUD endpoint. It involves video storage, voice transcriptions, video processing and natural language processing for mood and opinion mining and a lot of server side text manipulations.</p> <p>Now I know if there is ML involved I should probably choose Python and call it a day but that is exactly what I want to discuss. A lot of these services are provided by cloud solutions and we want to use them initially and then build our own solutions once we have a good amount of datasets in the coming years.</p> <p>So, my question is how viable is Golang for purposes like string manipulation and AI? I am leaning towards Golang because of its seamless integration in a scalable cloud infrastructure. I have heard a lot of good things about it being super fast and saving deployment costs in cloud infrastructure that charge for computation time.</p> <p>For more context, I have already built backend applications with Node and Python combined in the past and achieve good results with it but it wasn't built to scale and was a concept rather than a full fledged startup with investment.</p> <p>Looking forward to your valuable input.</p> backend kubernetes cloud infrastructure