weibocom/motan

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5873 stars · 1744 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Motan is a cross-language remote procedure call (RPC) framework for rapidly building high-performance distributed services, originally developed at Weibo. It provides cluster support, service discovery integration with Consul and Zookeeper, load balancing, and synchronous/asynchronous calls with clients in Java, Go, PHP, and Lua.

Use cases

• build high-performance distributed services in java
• rpc framework with service discovery via zookeeper or consul
• cross-language rpc between java go php and lua services
• weighted load balancing across data centers
• synchronous and asynchronous remote procedure calls
• microservices communication framework for high load scenarios

When to choose

• you need a jvm-based rpc framework with mature cluster and service discovery support
• your services span java, go, php, or lua and must interoperate
• you run high-traffic production systems needing idc-aware scheduling and load balancing

When to avoid

• you want a polyglot-first ecosystem like grpc with broad community tooling
• your stack is not jvm-centric and you don't need motan's specific features
• you need rest/http-first apis rather than binary rpc

Facets

framework · maturity active

rpc microservices service-discovery load-testing middleware microservices backend developer-tools jvm cross-platform rpc-framework distributed-services service-governance cross-language high-performance consul zookeeper java

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