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Nomad
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations. -
go-zero
go-zero is a web and rpc framework written in Go. It's born to ensure the stability of the busy sites with resilient design. Builtin goctl greatly improves the development productivity. [Moved to: https://github.com/zeromicro/go-zero] -
rpcx
Best microservices framework in Go, like alibaba Dubbo, but with more features, Scale easily. Try it. Test it. If you feel it's better, use it! ๐๐๐ฏ๐ๆ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐จ, ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๆ๐ซ๐ฉ๐๐ฑ! build for cloud! -
Encore
Encore is the Backend Development Platform purpose-built to help you create event-driven and distributed systems. -
gleam
Fast, efficient, and scalable distributed map/reduce system, DAG execution, in memory or on disk, written in pure Go, runs standalone or distributedly. -
glow
Glow is an easy-to-use distributed computation system written in Go, similar to Hadoop Map Reduce, Spark, Flink, Storm, etc. I am also working on another similar pure Go system, https://github.com/chrislusf/gleam , which is more flexible and more performant. -
Olric
Distributed in-memory object store. It can be used as an embedded Go library and a language-independent service. -
Dragonfly
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go-doudou
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resgate
A Realtime API Gateway used with NATS to build REST, real time, and RPC APIs, where all your clients are synchronized seamlessly. -
go-sundheit
A library built to provide support for defining service health for golang services. It allows you to register async health checks for your dependencies and the service itself, provides a health endpoint that exposes their status, and health metrics. -
Maestro
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celeriac
Golang client library for adding support for interacting and monitoring Celery workers, tasks and events. -
drmaa
Compute cluster (HPC) job submission library for Go (#golang) based on the open DRMAA standard.
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gRPC-Go
The Go implementation of gRPC: A high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. For more information see the Go gRPC docs, or jump directly into the quick start.
Prerequisites
Installation
With Go module support (Go 1.11+), simply add the following import
import "google.golang.org/grpc"
to your code, and then go [build|run|test]
will automatically fetch the
necessary dependencies.
Otherwise, to install the grpc-go
package, run the following command:
$ go get -u google.golang.org/grpc
Note: If you are trying to access
grpc-go
from China, see the FAQ below.
Learn more
- Go gRPC docs, which include a quick start and API reference among other resources
- [Low-level technical docs](Documentation) from this repository
- Performance benchmark
- [Examples](examples)
FAQ
I/O Timeout Errors
The golang.org
domain may be blocked from some countries. go get
usually
produces an error like the following when this happens:
$ go get -u google.golang.org/grpc
package google.golang.org/grpc: unrecognized import path "google.golang.org/grpc" (https fetch: Get https://google.golang.org/grpc?go-get=1: dial tcp 216.239.37.1:443: i/o timeout)
To build Go code, there are several options:
Set up a VPN and access google.golang.org through that.
Without Go module support:
git clone
the repo manually:
git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go.git $GOPATH/src/google.golang.org/grpc
You will need to do the same for all of grpc's dependencies in golang.org
,
e.g. golang.org/x/net
.
- With Go module support: it is possible to use the
replace
feature ofgo mod
to create aliases for golang.org packages. In your project's directory:
go mod edit -replace=google.golang.org/grpc=github.com/grpc/grpc-go@latest
go mod tidy
go mod vendor
go build -mod=vendor
Again, this will need to be done for all transitive dependencies hosted on golang.org as well. For details, refer to golang/go issue #28652.
Compiling error, undefined: grpc.SupportPackageIsVersion
If you are using Go modules:
Ensure your gRPC-Go version is require
d at the appropriate version in
the same module containing the generated .pb.go
files. For example,
SupportPackageIsVersion6
needs v1.27.0
, so in your go.mod
file:
module <your module name>
require (
google.golang.org/grpc v1.27.0
)
If you are not using Go modules:
Update the proto
package, gRPC package, and rebuild the .proto
files:
go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/{proto,protoc-gen-go}
go get -u google.golang.org/grpc
protoc --go_out=plugins=grpc:. *.proto
How to turn on logging
The default logger is controlled by environment variables. Turn everything on like this:
$ export GRPC_GO_LOG_VERBOSITY_LEVEL=99
$ export GRPC_GO_LOG_SEVERITY_LEVEL=info
The RPC failed with error "code = Unavailable desc = transport is closing"
This error means the connection the RPC is using was closed, and there are many possible reasons, including:
- mis-configured transport credentials, connection failed on handshaking
- bytes disrupted, possibly by a proxy in between
- server shutdown
- Keepalive parameters caused connection shutdown, for example if you have configured your server to terminate connections regularly to trigger DNS lookups. If this is the case, you may want to increase your MaxConnectionAgeGrace, to allow longer RPC calls to finish.
It can be tricky to debug this because the error happens on the client side but the root cause of the connection being closed is on the server side. Turn on logging on both client and server, and see if there are any transport errors.