I wonder why is this the case. Microsoft is now teaming up with Docker, Google and others to make containers ecosystem and orchestration tools (like Kubernetes, libswarm) better.
It's actually annoying Go is shown as a web language in many tutorials. It's simply not. If you use Go for systems programming and other stuff like creating daemons, services, you will fall in love with it more and will not go back to any other language. That's why I believe those Go start tutorials should not be showing the net/http side of things.
It's weird they have fictitious entries right on crowded areas of a metropolitan city which tons of people look up on their mobile phones every single day. I'd say this is bad UX.
Paxos paper is in "Basics" category just like it is meant to be a joke. Even the "Paxos made simple" paper is not easily understood by graduate students as many studies have shown. (see Raft paper for a study on this.)
This doesn't make things very slow but not very faster either. When you need performance, a code generator like this can help: http://clipperhouse.github.io/gen/