CradleCMS is an easy to setup and reliable web publishing platform & eCommerce solution where you can create blogs, company websites and eCommerce stores in an fast admin UI. You can install it on-premises or in the cloud, run the whole system on a single server or split into multiple servers.
10x performance
Our benchmark tests shows that our application handles 10 x more requests than php- and js-code stacks. Server requirements for sites with 1 million monthly visitors are as low as 1 CPU, 512MB RAM, 1 GB Storage.
Go is known for its fast execution speed which makes it ideal for building web platforms, where every millisecond counts. This speed is partly due to Go's unique concurrency features, allowing efficient use of system resources.
This translates to low monthly costs if using a cloud hosting service.
Scalability
Go's built-in support for concurrency and its lightweight, efficient runtime environment make it well-suited to building distributed systems. With Cradle it is combined with a service oriented design deployable in multiple ways, support for S3 and CockroachDB.
A flexible infrastructure, that grows with your business. Whether you're running on a single server or need to scale to an anycast deployment, Cradle's architecture can adapt to your requirements, from small installations to enterprise-level deployments.
Great development experience
Overall, Go is an excellent choice for building web platforms due to its speed, scalability, simplicity, cross-platform compatibility, and active community. Its popularity continues to grow, and it is becoming increasingly common to use Go to build high-performance, reliable web applications.
When we started to write Cradle systems suit in 2022 the obvious choice was Go as main programming language, Go is a relatively simple language with a clean syntax and minimalistic at its core with a large and active community.
-We love maintaining the code base as we can keep Cradle software low on dependencies and deliver software of high quality. With their backwards compability updating to a newer version of Go does not break the application and parts of older code does not need rewrites after updates.
About Go
Go is syntactically similar to programming language C, which should be no coincidence as one of the creators also is designer and creator of C released in 1972. Together with fellow engineers, they aimed to build a new coding language that includes improvements and adaptations to the modern computer landscape and the work environment for the engineer. They first released it in 2008 as Go and the language now starts to approach 20 years of age.
Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for the work we were doing at Google. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language. Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java