We build fast, reliable backend services and tooling in Go, a strong fit for high-throughput APIs and data-heavy workloads. Its simplicity and performance make it ideal for systems that need to scale.
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Go often powers a fast, reliable piece of a larger system we build, from backend services to data-heavy components. These are projects where Go is part of the stack.
Kashi Clinical Laboratories: A Custom LIMS Built to Grow
Kashi Clinical Laboratories needed software that could run the whole lab, not just parts of it, and a team that would keep improving it as the business grew.
Sembit built a custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that handles accessioning, results, customer management, reporting, billing, and insurance. It includes a customer portal for online ordering and test status, a mobile app for phlebotomists in the field, and more than 50 integrations on a large SQL Server database.
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An Augmented Reality Proof of Concept
We helped a research team explore augmented reality for video meetings, which had taken off during Covid. Before committing to development, they wanted to user-test the ideas — swapping out floors and walls, decluttering a room, a shared whiteboard drawn on paper.
Sembit built a browser-based proof of concept: a green screen setup plus two synced web pages, one showing the test subject their own live video with objects composited in, and a control page for the researcher running the session. A lightweight Go server kept the two in sync in real time, so the researcher could simulate voice commands and background changes on the fly.
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These are the situations where teams most often bring us in for Go work, from high-throughput APIs and data processing to lightweight services and command-line tooling that need to be fast and cheap to run.
Go is an excellent language for building the APIs and services that sit behind web and mobile apps. Its performance and small memory footprint make it well suited to services that handle heavy traffic. The standard library is strong, so services stay lean and easy to deploy. This is one of the most common reasons teams reach for Go.
Oregon-Based Go Development Team
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Our Oregon-based team uses Go where it fits best: fast, reliable services and tooling that need to scale without running up infrastructure costs. We do not treat any language as a silver bullet. We choose Go when its performance, simplicity, and concurrency model are the right match for the problem.
We work with clients in real time, and we think about how a Go service fits into the larger system around it, including its APIs, databases, and deployment environment. Whether you need a new service built, an existing one improved, or extra engineering capacity, we bring practical experience across many industries.
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Go's goroutines and channels make it straightforward to handle many tasks at once. This lets services process high volumes of requests or data efficiently, without the complexity that concurrency usually brings.
Go has a small, deliberate feature set that keeps codebases readable and easy for a team to maintain. This lowers long-term cost and makes it easier for new developers to pick up a project.
Go compiles to a single static binary with no runtime to install, which makes deployment simple and containers small. Services start quickly and use little memory.
We build and consume APIs in Go to connect systems and move data reliably between them. Go is well suited to the service layer that ties a larger application together.
We use Go for pipelines and components that ingest or transform large volumes of data. Its performance and concurrency keep throughput high while controlling infrastructure cost.
Go fits naturally into containerized and orchestrated environments, which is why so much of the cloud-native ecosystem is written in it. We build services that scale cleanly in these environments.
FAQ: Go (Golang) Development
Go is a strong fit when you need fast, reliable services that scale efficiently, such as high-traffic APIs, data processing, or cloud-native microservices. It is also excellent for command-line tools and SDKs. We are candid about when Go is the right match and when another stack would serve you better.
Yes. Go is often used for a specific service or component within a larger system rather than the whole application. We build Go services that integrate cleanly with your existing APIs, databases, and infrastructure, so it fits into what you already run.
Yes. Go's concurrency model and low memory footprint make it well suited to services that handle heavy traffic or process large volumes of data. With proper design, it performs extremely well while keeping infrastructure costs down.
Yes. We regularly step into existing codebases to stabilize them, fix issues, and extend functionality. We review the service, understand how it works, and improve it without disrupting what depends on it.
No. We bill based on the time actually used, tracked to the minute. Some clients bring us in for a focused build or fix, while others work with us over the long term. You only pay for what you need.
