Using the App Engine
While not right for every project, Google's App Engine can open up a world of scalability when it comes to concurrent applications, without the hassle of VM provisioning, reboots, monitoring, and so on.
The App Engine is not entirely dissimilar to Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, and the ilk, except for the fact that you do not need to necessarily involve yourself in the minute details of direct server setup and maintenance. All of them provide a single spot to acquire and utilize virtual computing resources for your applications.
Rather, it can be a more abstract environment within Google's architecture with which to house and run your code in a number of languages, including—no surprise here—the Go language itself.
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