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  1. go-formatter

    A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

    awesome

  2. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  3. awesome-crystal

    :gem: A collection of awesome Crystal libraries, tools, frameworks and software

    awesome

  4. wrk

    Modern HTTP benchmarking tool

    wrk / hey

  5. Hey

    HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement (by rakyll)

    wrk / hey

  6. postman-app-support

    Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

    postman

  7. k9s

    🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

    k9s

  8. grpcurl

    Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

    grpcurl / grpcui

  9. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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  10. grpcui

    An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman

    grpcurl / grpcui

  11. 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.

    nomad

  12. Benthos

    Discontinued Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane [Moved to: https://github.com/redpanda-data/connect]

  13. prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

    prometheus / grafana

  14. Grafana

    The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

    prometheus / grafana

  15. go

    The Go programming language

    golang

  16. crystal

    The Crystal Programming Language

    crystal

  17. SaaSHub

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