Go and Redis share similarities in being fast, simple and performance-driven, making them popular choices among developers. Both are used for different tasks but offer improved performance without sacrificing simplicity. The blog post on using Redis with Go provides a comprehensive guide to developing application cache, session store, counters, real-time analytics, publish/subscribe and job queue management. Popular clients like Redigo and Radix provide easy-to-use APIs for interacting with Redis from Go.