Ever since Tensorflow released Bindings for Go, I’ve been itching to give it a go. The ease of deployability with Go and microservice friendliness and even simple http performance improvements make it really handly to build a working prediction application with Go.

The immediate and apparent downside for anyone who’s tried to train a model is how unintuitive scoping is with Tensorflow for Go.Python’s a lot easier to train models with for a newcomer because of a lot of things: