[Stephen_C]

I doubt Andy would disagree with you, it's no slight or bad commentary against Python (Andy was the cheerleader for introducing Python into our infrastructure where it is blossoming nicely).

With sufficient development time Andy could have introduced more concurrency and optimisation into the Python monitoring component (I'm thinking Gevent might have been a nice fit)...but without introducing additional frameworks or libraries Go had these features as a core component.

The offhand performance comment aside, Andy was noting that a component written in Go is depended on to handle VERY high volumes of message throughput in a financial services firm.

While no proof of reliability it is merely anecdotal support that Go is being used in production environments.