go-zero

Health v2 · maintenance only

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33280 stars · 4313 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

go-zero is a cloud-native Go web and RPC microservices framework with built-in engineering practices like circuit breaking, rate limiting, adaptive load shedding, and timeout control. It includes goctl, a CLI code generator that produces production-ready API and RPC service code from a simple .api DSL.

Use cases

• build microservices in go
• generate rest api server from api definition
• go rpc framework with grpc
• scaffold a production-ready http service
• add circuit breaker and rate limiting to go services
• generate multi-platform client code from api spec

When to choose

• you are building Go microservices and want resilience features built in without extra configuration
• you want code generation from a simple API DSL to reduce boilerplate
• you need a battle-tested framework proven at very high traffic scale
• you want both REST and RPC services from one toolchain

When to avoid

• you prefer minimal libraries over opinionated, code-generating frameworks
• your project is not in Go
• you need full control over project structure rather than goctl's generated layout
• you only need a lightweight HTTP router without microservice machinery

Facets

framework · maturity stable

web-framework rpc api-framework cli middleware rate-limiting routing microservices backend web-development developer-tools apis go windows cloud cli cloud-native goctl resilience circuit-breaker grpc restful-api api-dsl load-shedding cncf-landscape code-generation linux macos docker

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