What is the best microservices framework in Go?

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  • Gin

    Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

  • I prefer to use either https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin, vanilla go http handlers around https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter, or wrap the forementioned http router with a extension that allows my handlers to return errors and/or response models.

  • httprouter

    A high performance HTTP request router that scales well

  • I prefer to use either https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin, vanilla go http handlers around https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter, or wrap the forementioned http router with a extension that allows my handlers to return errors and/or response models.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • go-zero

    A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.

  • Easy to use with start with https://github.com/zeromicro/go-zero, cannot say about long term.

  • dapr

    Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

  • https://github.com/dapr/dapr is cool but not easy to start (may be)

  • swagger

    🧬 fiber middleware to automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger (by gofiber)

  • go-swagger compat: https://github.com/gofiber/swagger

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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