In times when software development is moving towards creating services for other applications, micro frameworks serve very well this paradigm by providing an easy way to create the building blocks on top of which larger applications can rely. Traffic is one of them.

Created inside Google by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, fathers of Unix and UTF-8, to overcome the limitations of C++ (compile times being the most annoying), Go is a concurrent, garbage-collected language with fast compilation. This article will introduce you to the main language features and present you real life code snippets.