grpc-go VS go-micro

The reflection service is open-sourced (at least for some sdks):

* https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/Documentation/se...

* https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/grpc/g...

We’re hoping to make this rate at least optional via this pull request but as the time of writing this blog, it’s nothing we can do to circle our way around it.

First, I started with gRPC’s recommended starter repository for learning gRPC, their **helloworld **example, which is a part of the official gRPC repository.

IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here

If you read the first comment, you’ll see the API was documented as being experimental.

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/3798#issuecomment-670...

The lack of this analysis still results in bugs and CVEs. See how many races are found and fixed in gRPC releases: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/releases (search "race"). It's a shame Google does not publish these as CVEs, because many of them qualify.

I like to point people at this release to show that not even Google -- in its own language on its own library for its own RPC protocol -- can write thread-safe Go, so what chance does anyone else have. Maybe we have to stop thinking of Go as a language for mission critical parallel computing and think of it more like a Python 4 made for low-risk prototyping. Mature libraries help for that prototyping, you know how to put them together and get something working, that something just won't be scaleable, efficient, or thread-safe.

I first learned about this technique when gRPC generated code started using it. See the short readme and the long issue discussion. I think a lot more of the rationale from the discussion should have made it into the readme, since this is the only time most Go developers will ever see this technique used, especially since it can't be retrofitted to existing interfaces without breaking existing implementations.

I don't have any experience with goRPC (I'm assuming you're referring to https://github.com/valyala/gorpc), but just to note that that repo hasn't been updated in 7 years and has open issues that are that old, too. https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go has 17.5k stars and is actively maintained. That doesn't say anything about their relative performance - goRPC might be faster - but you probably won't have a fun time if you run into issues.

Found the root cause from https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/commit/383b1143 (original issue: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/75):

    // Note that ServeHTTP uses Go's HTTP/2 server implementation which is

Had similar goals. Started by writing Go interfaces for it with Go Micro - https://go-micro.dev then opted for the platform service model as you mentioned with Micro - https://micro.dev

I think whether it's Dapr, Micro or something else, the platform service model with well defined interfaces is the way to go. I don't think a lot of people get this yet so it's still going to be a few years before it takes off.

Website: https://github.com/go-micro/go-micro

Good luck Buf! I spent many years building an RPC framework around gRPC called Go Micro (https://github.com/asim/go-micro). I think one of the biggest issues was just resources to see it through but also my own desire to move beyond it towards a platform and services. I hope you're able to bring some sense to the gRPC world. It's mostly a networking library. The ecosystem around it is too low level. If anything abstractions and more developer friendly tooling would be a massive improvement. No one needs to see or touch the guts of gRPC. I wish I didn't have to peak into the internals but unfortunately that's what it takes to integrate it elsewhere.

I hope you build something awesome for the community!

$ github-compare zeromicro/go-zero go-kratos/kratos asim/go-micro go-kit/kit ┌─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬───────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────┐ │ METRICS │ ZEROMICRO/GO-ZERO │ GO-KRATOS/KRATOS │ ASIM/GO-MICRO │ GO-KIT/KIT │ ├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────┤ │ 🏠 homepage │ https://go-zero.dev │ https://go-kratos.dev │ https://go-micro.dev │ https://gokit.io │ │ 🌎 language │ Go │ Go │ Go │ Go │ │ 📌 license │ MIT License │ MIT License │ Apache License 2.0 │ MIT License │ │ ⏰ age │ 655 days │ 1231 days │ 2688 days │ 2668 days │ │ 🌟 stars │ 17778(27/d) │ 17856(14/d) │ 18233(6/d) │ 23084(8/d) │ │ 📊 latestDayStarCount │ 33 (up) │ 7 (down) │ 2 (down) │ 10 (up) │ │ 📉 latestWeekStarCount │ 227 (up) │ 64 (down) │ 31 (down) │ 44 (down) │ │ 📈 latestMonthStarCount │ 916 │ 531 │ 176 │ 235 │ │ 👏 forks │ 2520(3/d) │ 3446(2/d) │ 2087(0/d) │ 2315(0/d) │ │ 👀 watchers │ 266 │ 424 │ 510 │ 690 │ │ 💪 issues │ 50/741 │ 51/793 │ 76/914 │ 35/548 │ │ 💯 pull requests │ 13/1155 │ 10/1221 │ 0/1513 │ 9/627 │ │ 👥 contributors │ 132 │ 198 │ 166 │ 221 │ │ 🚀 releases │ 63 │ 49 │ 206 │ 12 │ │ 🔭 release circle(avg) │ 10 days │ 25 days │ 13 days │ 222 days │ │ 🎯 lastRelease │ 24 day(s) ago │ 1 day(s) ago │ 5 day(s) ago │ 8 month(s) ago │ │ 🕦 lastCommit │ 2 day(s) ago │ 2 hour(s) ago │ 5 day(s) ago │ 6 day(s) ago │ │ 📝 lastUpdate │ 47 minute(s) ago │ 16 minute(s) ago │ 1 hour(s) ago │ 1 hour(s) ago │ └─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────┘