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Top 23 Go message-queue Projects
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https://nsq.io/ is also very reliable, stable, lightweight, and easy to use.
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SmoothMQ: a drop-in replacement for SQS. https://github.com/poundifdef/smoothmq
I am looking to build 4 main things:
1. Better compatibility with SQS' different endpoints
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plumber
A swiss army knife CLI tool for interacting with Kafka, RabbitMQ and other messaging systems.
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vanus
Vanus is a Serverless, event streaming system with processing capabilities. It easily connects SaaS, Cloud Services, and Databases to help users build next-gen Event-driven Applications.
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Project mention: Simplifying Multi-LLM Integration with KubeMQ: The Path to Scalable AI Solutions | dev.to | 2025-02-25
In this blog post, we'll look at just how to do this. We’ll provide code examples to guide you through setting up a router that interfaces with both OpenAI and Anthropic's Claude using KubeMQ as our example.
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iwf
iWF is a Workflow-As-Code microservice orchestration platform offering an orchestration coding framework and service for building resilient, fault-tolerant, scalable long-running processes
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If you’re curious, check out Varmq on GitHub. Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments below, and let's make this Better together.
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kawa
A blazingly fast event stream processing library powering the reveald event processing daemon. (by runreveal)
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blockqueue
BlockQueue is a open source and cost-effective Job Queue with a pub/sub mechanism utilizing SQLite and NutsDB. Support LibSQL by Turso and PostgreSQL
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gq
gq is a lightweight scalable message queue backed by the most popular SQL DBs. Add message queue semantics to your application without integrating extra infrastructure.
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kubemq-bridges
KubeMQ Bridges bridge, replicate, aggregate, and transform messages between KubeMQ clusters no matter where they are, allowing to build a true cloud-native messaging single network running globally.
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Project mention: Show HN: RabbitMQ-Message-Ops – A CLI for Managing RabbitMQ Messages | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-25
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go message-queue discussion
Go message-queue related posts
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Simplifying Multi-LLM Integration with KubeMQ: The Path to Scalable AI Solutions
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Enhancing GenAI Applications With KubeMQ: Efficiently Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
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RabbitMQ 4.0 Released
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Mastering Multi-Cloud and Edge Data Synchronization: A Retail Use Case with KubeMQ’s Java SDK
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Ask HN: What Is the SQLite of Queues?
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Bento, the open source fork of the project formerly known as Benthos
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Benthos – Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
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Index
What are some of the best open-source message-queue projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | nsq | 25,367 |
| 2 | NATS | 17,316 |
| 3 | connect | 8,375 |
| 4 | memphis | 3,303 |
| 5 | liftbridge | 2,587 |
| 6 | smoothmq | 2,216 |
| 7 | plumber | 2,126 |
| 8 | vanus | 1,704 |
| 9 | rmq | 1,595 |
| 10 | taskq | 1,276 |
| 11 | kubemq-community | 668 |
| 12 | Siberite | 588 |
| 13 | iwf | 574 |
| 14 | polar | 207 |
| 15 | varmq | 134 |
| 16 | kawa | 133 |
| 17 | blockqueue | 67 |
| 18 | kubemq-go | 49 |
| 19 | memphis.go | 40 |
| 20 | gq | 30 |
| 21 | kubemqctl | 22 |
| 22 | kubemq-bridges | 16 |
| 23 | rabbitmq-message-ops | 14 |
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