I was told that Go's garbage collector does not cause interruptions in the program unlike Java's garbage collector which can cause a program to pause. This makes Go's much superior for latency sensitive micro-services.

I tried understanding this but not being an expert, I did not. I found some stuff like - sub 10ms latency https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-dev/Ab1sFeoZg_8

In general, are there reasons where Go is a superior choice for designing micro-services running on docker/kubernetes compared to Java (I know that until Java 9, Java only understood memory and cpu resources at a host level. which meant that it made assumptions about sizing thread pools and memory allocations and Docker wouldn't always provide these resources).