thejerf/suture

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1412 stars · 76 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Suture is a Go library implementing Erlang-style supervisor trees for managing and restarting failing goroutine-based services. It handles failure cases like crash loops gracefully while imposing minimal requirements on service code and providing production logging hooks.

Use cases

• supervise long-running goroutines and restart them on failure
• build fault-tolerant Go services with supervisor trees
• prevent crash loops from burning CPU endlessly restarting dead services
• manage graceful shutdown of a tree of background services
• add structured logging around service restarts in production

When to choose

• you have multiple long-running goroutine services that need automatic restart on failure
• you want Erlang/OTP-style supervision semantics in Go
• you need backoff and termination policies for repeatedly failing services

When to avoid

• you only need simple one-off goroutines without restart semantics
• you want full OTP feature set like distributed supervision or hot code reloading
• your project is not written in Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency error-handling workflow-automation developer-tools microservices backend go cross-platform supervisor-trees fault-tolerance erlang-style goroutine-management resilience

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