Go Micro v2.4.0 – Go microservices development framework (opens in new tab)

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This post links to a release on github. It might be clearer to link to the project homepage instead: https://go-micro.dev/

dang5y ago

A thread from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878659

chuhnkOP5y ago

Hey! Asim here (author). Feel free to ask any questions. Was not expecting this to hit the front page.

tech_dreamer5y ago

Is it possible to create a tutorial showing features end-to-end (using CLI / Code generation)? I have seen a couple of high quality tutorial series on web - but they are advocating usage of 1.18 version.

chuhnkOP5y ago

Sure, what kind of tutorials are you interested in? Written form or video? We're thinking about doing a video walkthrough series potentially in live form.

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cabernal5y ago

This is reminiscent of https://github.com/moleculer-go/moleculer. I have not used it personally.

I have worked with moleculer-js, which I've had great time using (https://github.com/moleculerjs/moleculer).

chuhnkOP5y ago

Micro started in 2014 and from what I could tell molecular took a lot of ideas from it to creat something in the JS ecosystem.

gigatexal5y ago

Built in NATs, RPC, mDNS, this all seems really compelling. Is anyone using this at scale in production? What have been the pain points?

mpfundstein5y ago

I think thats not really micro.service anymore. It creates a lock in we dont want. Why not build a monolith then?

chuhnkOP5y ago

Micro focuses on providing distributed systems programming as a single framework, so it takes all the patterns you'd normally leverage and puts them in one place for you to easily build services. We do this with a pluggable model so you can pick and choose underlying infrastructure dependencies or a zero dep model if you choose. Its very powerful and our hope is the next generation of services are built using it.

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christiansakai5y ago

I was just posting this on another forum. But I want to learn more about scalability and availability and microservices. I am quite familiar with fullstack and various databases but I need a hands on experience. Does micro have some sort of tutorials that build microservices from scratch?

dch4235y ago

Check "Micro In Action" series:

https://itnext.io/micro-in-action-getting-started-a79916ae3c...

Note: it is based on v1.18 for now. I'll update it to v2.x soon

christiansakai5y ago

Oh nice thanks!

andy97755y ago

Would I use micro on top of k8s? Doesn't seem to make sense to mix the two as far as I can tell.

chuhnkOP5y ago

Actually Micro is the exact thing you would use ontop of kubernetes. Micro was built to tame the world of cloud-native complexity and focus on developer needs.

You can think of Micro as an abstraction layer over distribute systems infrastructure, hiding the complexity from the developer and providing a pluggable system which allows it to operate in any environment. This means locally a dev can run with zero deps but in prod someone from the ops team can switch to etcd, cockroach, kubernetes, etc.

Predominantly the majority of our users are using Micro on top of K8s. Their primary focus is productivity and velocity of development when building microservices.

haggy5y ago

Using this framework on top of kubernetes (which is itself another framework used to managed microservices) sounds like an operational nightmare. Kubernetes is already filled with operational pitfalls so adding more layers on top only increases complexity.

I think Go-Micro looks cool but I wouldn't suggest layering this much more than you already are. Complexity is death for distributed systems so minimizing complexity means maximizing reliability for the systems.

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shlomi905y ago

We are looking into Dapr now. How do you compare to it? https://github.com/dapr/dapr

chuhnkOP5y ago

Dapr is attempting to play in the same space as us. Using a standalone server and grpc generated libraries. We're a Go framework first as we believe development is about the tools you put in the hands of the developer meaning how they write code. We deliver the framework as a set of grpc services also which you can start with the command "micro server" and communicate through https://github.com/micro/micro

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bo0tzz5y ago

This post links to a release on github. It might be clearer to link to the project homepage instead: https://go-micro.dev/

dang5y ago

A thread from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878659

chuhnkOP5y ago

Hey! Asim here (author). Feel free to ask any questions. Was not expecting this to hit the front page.

tech_dreamer5y ago

chuhnkOP5y ago

Sure, what kind of tutorials are you interested in? Written form or video? We're thinking about doing a video walkthrough series potentially in live form.

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cabernal5y ago

This is reminiscent of https://github.com/moleculer-go/moleculer. I have not used it personally.

I have worked with moleculer-js, which I've had great time using (https://github.com/moleculerjs/moleculer).

chuhnkOP5y ago

Micro started in 2014 and from what I could tell molecular took a lot of ideas from it to creat something in the JS ecosystem.

gigatexal5y ago

Built in NATs, RPC, mDNS, this all seems really compelling. Is anyone using this at scale in production? What have been the pain points?

mpfundstein5y ago

I think thats not really micro.service anymore. It creates a lock in we dont want. Why not build a monolith then?

chuhnkOP5y ago

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christiansakai5y ago

dch4235y ago

Check "Micro In Action" series:

https://itnext.io/micro-in-action-getting-started-a79916ae3c...

Note: it is based on v1.18 for now. I'll update it to v2.x soon

christiansakai5y ago

Oh nice thanks!

andy97755y ago

Would I use micro on top of k8s? Doesn't seem to make sense to mix the two as far as I can tell.

chuhnkOP5y ago

Actually Micro is the exact thing you would use ontop of kubernetes. Micro was built to tame the world of cloud-native complexity and focus on developer needs.

Predominantly the majority of our users are using Micro on top of K8s. Their primary focus is productivity and velocity of development when building microservices.

haggy5y ago

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shlomi905y ago

We are looking into Dapr now. How do you compare to it? https://github.com/dapr/dapr

chuhnkOP5y ago

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