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There has been articles talking about rewritting being less of a terrible idea if your writing a SaaS. Not to mention the throw one out, you will anyway idea. I'd be interested though, in hearing more about what they rewrote into Go. Its most probable its not all of their codebase.

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Just our realtime system, and we run some asynchronous tasks with Go now, specifying to replace a few things that were done by Celery previously.

See this shitty thing I wrote to bridge the gap: https://github.com/mattrobenolt/go-celery :)

Yes, it sounds like its a websocket server. A lot of that stuff is relatively low complexity if you glue everything together with a message queue since they can be made language agnostic very easily.

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