Handling high-traffic HTTP requests with JSON payloads

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/golang

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com
featured
  1. encoding

    Go package containing implementations of efficient encoding, decoding, and validation APIs.

  2. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

    SaaSHub logo
  3. pyroscope-go

    This is the golang client integration for Pyroscope

  4. go

    The Go programming language

    I wouldn't classify 100kb json as "huge" but I agree with the point that encoding/json can be slow (even more true if you are dealing with any and not a typed struct/field). Hope that it improve with v2 of the package - https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/63397.

  5. sonic

    A blazingly fast JSON serializing & deserializing library (by bytedance)

    Since most of the time would be spent decoding json, you could try to cut this time using https://github.com/bytedance/sonic or https://github.com/json-iterator/go, both are drop-in replacements for the stdlib, sonic is faster.

  6. jsoniter

    Discontinued A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json" (by json-iterator)

    Since most of the time would be spent decoding json, you could try to cut this time using https://github.com/bytedance/sonic or https://github.com/json-iterator/go, both are drop-in replacements for the stdlib, sonic is faster.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • Golang optimizations for high‑volume services

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2025
  • Rob Pike: Gobs of data (2011)

    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
  • A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
  • Why Go is the Future of Backend Development

    1 project | /r/programming | 18 May 2023
  • JSON array with two different json objects

    1 project | /r/golang | 27 Mar 2023