Overview A reference microservice backend in Go on the go-zero framework. HTTP API services aggregate gRPC RPC services, with message queue, delay queue and scheduled-task code under app/. It also wires in logging (filebeat, Kafka, go-stash, Elasticsearch), Prometheus, Jaeger, DTM and a GitLab/Jenkins/Harbor/k8s deploy flow. It has no AI features.
Who it is for: Go developers learning go-zero microservice architecture
Strengths Covers API, RPC, Kafka pub/sub, asynq delayed jobs, logging, metrics and tracing in one repo Compose dev setup uses direct service links, so no etcd or Nacos is needed locally Includes goctl code-generation templates and scripts, plus modd hot-reload config Documents a Jenkins, GitLab, Harbor and Kubernetes deployment pipeline Weaknesses Contains no AI or model integration, so it is a loose fit for an AI starter list Large middleware stack (Kafka, Elasticsearch, Jaeger, MySQL, Redis) is heavy to run locally Dev image is based on golang 1.17.7-alpine, which is old DTM distributed transactions are listed but not yet used in the project What it needs Go Needs MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Docker Compose What changed From the release notes. No flag means the note does not say so, not that the upgrade is safe.
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Releases None in the last 12 monthsLast one 719 days ago
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License in plain words MIT Permissive
Use it at work Yes
Change it and rebrand it Yes
Sell it or host it for others Yes Your part: Keep the copyright and license notice in copies you ship.
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Set it up Needs before it works: MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Docker Compose.
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