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A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries, and software. Inspired by awesome-python.

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Contents

• Awesome Go
  • Contents
  • Actor Model
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Audio and Music
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Blockchain
  • Bot Building
  • Build Automation
  • Command Line
    • Advanced Console UIs
    • Standard CLI
  • Configuration
  • Continuous Integration
  • CSS Preprocessors
  • Data Integration Frameworks
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Bit-packing and Compression
    • Bit Sets
    • Bloom and Cuckoo Filters
    • Data Structure and Algorithm Collections
    • Iterators
    • Maps
    • Miscellaneous Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Nullable Types
    • Queues
    • Sets
    • Text Analysis
    • Trees
    • Pipes
  • Database
    • Caches
    • Databases Implemented in Go
    • Database Schema Migration
    • Database Tools
    • SQL Query Builders
  • Database Drivers
    • Interfaces to Multiple Backends
    • Relational Database Drivers
    • NoSQL Database Drivers
    • Search and Analytic Databases
  • Date and Time
  • Distributed Systems
  • Dynamic DNS
  • Email
  • Embeddable Scripting Languages
  • Error Handling
  • File Handling
  • Financial
  • Forms
  • Functional
  • Game Development
  • Generators
  • Geographic
  • Go Compilers
  • Goroutines
  • GUI
  • Hardware
  • Images
  • IoT (Internet of Things)
  • Job Scheduler
  • JSON
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Messaging
  • Microsoft Office
    • Microsoft Excel
    • Microsoft Word
  • Miscellaneous
    • Dependency Injection
    • Project Layout
    • Strings
    • Uncategorized
  • Natural Language Processing
    • Language Detection
    • Morphological Analyzers
    • Slugifiers
    • Tokenizers
    • Translation
    • Transliteration
  • Networking
    • HTTP Clients
  • OpenGL
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Performance
  • Query Language
  • Reflection
  • Resource Embedding
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Security
  • Serialization
  • Server Applications
  • Stream Processing
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
    • Testing Frameworks
    • Mock
    • Fuzzing and delta-debugging/reducing/shrinking
    • Selenium and browser control tools
    • Fail injection
  • Text Processing
    • Formatters
    • Markup Languages
    • Parsers/Encoders/Decoders
    • Regular Expressions
    • Sanitation
    • Scrapers
    • RSS
    • Utility/Miscellaneous
  • Third-party APIs
  • Utilities
  • UUID
  • Validation
  • Version Control
  • Video
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
      • Actual middlewares
      • Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares
    • Routers
  • WebAssembly
  • Windows
  • Workflow Frameworks
  • XML
  • Zero Trust
  • Code Analysis
  • Editor Plugins
  • Go Generate Tools
  • Go Tools
  • Software Packages
    • DevOps Tools
    • Other Software
• Resources
  • Benchmarks
  • Conferences
  • E-Books
    • E-books for purchase
    • Free e-books
  • Gophers
  • Meetups
  • Style Guides
  • Social Media
    • Twitter
    • Reddit
  • Websites
    • Tutorials
    • Guided Learning

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Actor Model

Libraries for building actor-based programs.

• Ergo - An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang.
• Goakt - Fast and Distributed Actor framework using protocol buffers as message for Golang.
• Hollywood - Blazingly fast and light-weight Actor engine written in Golang.
• ProtoActor - Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin.

Artificial Intelligence

Libraries for building programs that leverage AI.

• chromem-go - Embeddable vector database for Go with Chroma-like interface and zero third-party dependencies. In-memory with optional persistence.
• fun - The simplest but powerful way to use large language models (LLMs) in Go.
• langchaingo - LangChainGo is a framework for developing applications powered by language models.
• LocalAI - Open Source OpenAI alternative, self-host AI models.
• Ollama - Run large language models locally.
• OllamaFarm - Manage, load-balance, and failover packs of Ollamas

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Audio and Music

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• flac - Native Go FLAC encoder/decoder with support for FLAC streams.
• gaad - Native Go AAC bitstream parser.
• GoAudio - Native Go Audio Processing Library.
• gosamplerate - libsamplerate bindings for go.
• id3v2 - ID3 decoding and encoding library for Go.
• malgo - Mini audio library.
• minimp3 - Lightweight MP3 decoder library.
• Oto - A low-level library to play sound on multiple platforms.
• PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.

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Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

• authboss - Modular authentication system for the web. It tries to remove as much boilerplate and "hard things" as possible so that each time you start a new web project in Go, you can plug it in, configure it, and start building your app without having to build an authentication system each time.
• branca - branca token specification implementation for Golang 1.15+.
• casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, and ABAC.
• cookiestxt - provides a parser of cookies.txt file format.
• go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication that supports LDAP, Basic, Bearer token, and Certificate based authentication.
• go-jose - Fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs.
• gologin - chainable handlers for login with OAuth1 and OAuth2 authentication providers.
• gorbac - provides a lightweight role-based access control (RBAC) implementation in Golang.
• gosession - This is quick session for net/http in GoLang. This package is perhaps the best implementation of the session mechanism, or at least it tries to become one.
• goth - provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to use OAuth and OAuth2. Handles multiple providers out of the box.
• jeff - Simple, flexible, secure, and idiomatic web session management with pluggable backends.
• jwt - Lightweight JSON Web Token (JWT) library.
• jwt - Safe, simple, and fast JSON Web Tokens for Go.
• jwt-auth - JWT middleware for Golang http servers with many configuration options.
• jwt-go - A full featured implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This library supports the parsing and verification as well as the generation and signing of JWTs.
• jwx - Go module implementing various JWx (JWA/JWE/JWK/JWS/JWT, otherwise known as JOSE) technologies
• keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.
• loginsrv - JWT login microservice with pluggable backends such as OAuth2 (Github), htpasswd, osiam.
• oauth2 - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine, and App Engine support.
• oidc - Easy to use OpenID Connect client and server library written for Go and certified by the OpenID Foundation
• openfga - Implementation of fine-grained authorization based on the "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System" paper. Backed by CNCF.
• osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.
• otpgen - Library to generate TOTP/HOTP codes.
• otpgo - Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) and HMAC-Based One-Time Password (HOTP) library for Go.
• paseto - Golang implementation of Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens (PASETO).
• permissions2 - Library for keeping track of users, login states, and permissions. Uses secure cookies and bcrypt.
• scope - Easily Manage OAuth2 Scopes In Go.
• scs - Session Manager for HTTP servers.
• securecookie - Efficient secure cookie encoding/decoding.
• session - Go session management for web servers (including support for Google App Engine - GAE).
• sessions - Dead simple, highly performant, highly customizable sessions service for go http servers.
• sessionup - Simple, yet effective HTTP session management and identification package.
• sjwt - Simple jwt generator and parser.

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Blockchain

Tools for building blockchains.

• cometbft - A distributed, Byzantine fault-tolerant, deterministic state machine replication engine. It is a fork of Tendermint Core and implements the Tendermint consensus algorithm.
• cosmos-sdk - A Framework for Building Public Blockchains in the Cosmos Ecosystem.
• gno - A comprehensive smart contract suite built with Golang and Gnolang, a deterministic, purpose-built Go variant for blockchains.
• go-ethereum - Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
• gosemble - A Go-based framework for building Polkadot/Substrate-compatible runtimes.
• gossamer - A Go implementation of the Polkadot Host.
• kubo - A blockchain framework implemented in Go. It provides content-addressable storage which can be used for decentralized storage in DApps. It is based on the IPFS protocol.
• lnd - A complete implementation of a Lighting Network node.
• solana-go - Go library to interface with Solana JSON RPC and WebSocket interfaces.
• tendermint - High-performance middleware for transforming a state machine written in any programming language into a Byzantine Fault Tolerant replicated state machine using the Tendermint consensus and blockchain protocols.

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Bot Building

Libraries for building and working with bots.

• bot - Zero-dependencies Telegram Bot library with additional UI components
• echotron - An elegant and concurrent library for Telegram Bots in Go.
• ephemeral-roles - A Discord bot for managing ephemeral roles based upon voice channel member presence.
• go-chat-bot - IRC, Slack & Telegram bot written in Go.
• go-joe - A general-purpose bot library inspired by Hubot but written in Go.
• go-sarah - Framework to build a bot for desired chat services including LINE, Slack, Gitter, and more.
• go-tg - Generated from official docs Go client library for accessing Telegram Bot API, with batteries for building complex bots included.
• go-tgbot - Pure Golang Telegram Bot API wrapper, generated from swagger file, session-based router, and middleware.
• go-twitch-irc - Library to write bots for twitch.tv chat
• Golang CryptoTrading Bot - A golang implementation of a console-based trading bot for cryptocurrency exchanges.
• govkbot - Simple Go VK bot library.
• hanu - Framework for writing Slack bots.
• Kelp - official trading and market-making bot for the Stellar DEX. Works out-of-the-box, written in Golang, compatible with centralized exchanges and custom trading strategies.
• larry - Larry ? is a really simple Twitter bot generator that tweets random repositories from Github built in Go.
• margelet - Framework for building Telegram bots.
• micha - Go Library for Telegram bot api.
• olivia - A chatbot built with an artificial neural network.
• slack-bot - Ready to use Slack Bot for lazy developers: Custom commands, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, Github...
• slacker - Easy to use framework to create Slack bots.
• slackscot - Another framework for building Slack bots.
• tbot - Telegram bot server with API similar to net/http.
• telebot - Telegram bot framework is written in Go.
• telego - Telegram Bot API library for Golang with full one-to-one API implementation.
• telegram-bot-api - Simple and clean Telegram bot client.
• teleterm - Telegram Bot Exec Terminal Command.
• Tenyks - Service oriented IRC bot using Redis and JSON for messaging.
• wayback - A bot for Telegram, Mastodon, Slack, and other messaging platforms archives webpages.

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Build Automation

Libraries and tools help with build automation.

• 1build - Command line tool to frictionlessly manage project-specific commands.
• air - Air - Live reload for Go apps.
• anko - Simple application watcher for multiple programming languages.
• gaper - Builds and restarts a Go project when it crashes or some watched file changes.
• gilbert - Build system and task runner for Go projects.
• gob - Gradle/Maven like build tool for Go projects.
• goyek - Create build pipelines in Go.
• mage - Mage is a make/rake-like build tool using Go.
• mmake - Modern Make.
• realize - Go build a system with file watchers and live to reload. Run, build and watch file changes with custom paths.
• Task - simple "Make" alternative.
• taskctl - Concurrent task runner.
• xc - Task runner with README.md defined tasks, executable markdown.

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Command Line

Advanced Console UIs

Libraries for building Console Applications and Console User Interfaces.

• asciigraph - Go package to make lightweight ASCII line graph ╭┈╯ in command line apps with no other dependencies.
• aurora - ANSI terminal colors that support fmt.Printf/Sprintf.
• box-cli-maker - Make Highly Customized Boxes for your CLI.
• bubble-table - An interactive table component for bubbletea.
• bubbles - TUI components for bubbletea.
• bubbletea - Go framework to build terminal apps, based on The Elm Architecture.
• cfmt - Contextual fmt inspired by bootstrap color classes.
• cfmt - Simple and convenient formatted stylized output fully compatible with fmt library.
• chalk - Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output.
• colourize - Go library for ANSI colour text in terminals.
• crab-config-files-templating - Dynamic configuration file templating tool for kubernetes manifest or general configuration files.
• ctc - The non-invasive cross-platform terminal color library does not need to modify the Print method.
• go-ataman - Go library for rendering ANSI colored text templates in terminals.
• go-colorable - Colorable writer for windows.
• go-colortext - Go library for color output in terminals.
• go-isatty - isatty for golang.
• go-palette - Go library that provides elegant and convenient style definitions using ANSI colors. Fully compatible & wraps the fmt library for nice terminal layouts.
• go-prompt - Library for building a powerful interactive prompt, inspired by python-prompt-toolkit.
• gocui - Minimalist Go library aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.
• gommon/color - Style terminal text.
• gookit/color - Terminal color rendering tool library, support 16 colors, 256 colors, RGB color rendering output, compatible with Windows.
• lipgloss - Declaratively define styles for color, format and layout in the terminal.
• marker - Easiest way to match and mark strings for colorful terminal outputs.
• mpb - Multi progress bar for terminal applications.
• progressbar - Basic thread-safe progress bar that works in every OS.
• pterm - A library to beautify console output on every platform with many combinable components.
• simpletable - Simple tables in a terminal with Go.
• spinner - Go package to easily provide a terminal spinner with options.
• tabby - A tiny library for super simple Golang tables.
• table - Small library for terminal color based tables.
• tabular - Print ASCII tables from command line utilities without the need to pass large sets of data to the API.
• termbox-go - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces.
• termdash - Go terminal dashboard based on termbox-go and inspired by termui.
• termenv - Advanced ANSI style & color support for your terminal applications.
• termui - Go terminal dashboard based on termbox-go and inspired by blessed-contrib.
• uilive - Library for updating terminal output in real time.
• uiprogress - Flexible library to render progress bars in terminal applications.
• uitable - Library to improve readability in terminal apps using tabular data.
• yacspin - Yet Another CLi Spinner package, for working with terminal spinners.

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Standard CLI

Libraries for building standard or basic Command Line applications.

• acmd - Simple, useful, and opinionated CLI package in Go.
• argparse - Command line argument parser inspired by Python's argparse module.
• argv - Go library to split command line string as arguments array using the bash syntax.
• carapace - Command argument completion generator for spf13/cobra.
• carapace-bin - Multi-shell multi-command argument completer.
• carapace-spec - Define simple completions using a spec file.
• climax - Alternative CLI with "human face", in spirit of Go command.
• clîr - A Simple and Clear CLI library. Dependency free.
• cmd - Extends the standard flag package to support sub commands and more in idiomatic way.
• cmdr - A POSIX/GNU style, getopt-like command-line UI Go library.
• cobra - Commander for modern Go CLI interactions.
• command-chain - A go library for configure and run command chains - such as pipelining in unix shells.
• commandeer - Dev-friendly CLI apps: sets up flags, defaults, and usage based on struct fields and tags.
• complete - Write bash completions in Go + Go command bash completion.
• Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync.
• elvish - An expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell.
• env - Tag-based environment configuration for structs.
• flag - Simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go supporting subcommand.
• flaggy - A robust and idiomatic flags package with excellent subcommand support.
• flagvar - A collection of flag argument types for Go's standard flag package.
• go-andotp - A CLI program to encrypt/decrypt andOTP files. Can be used as a library as well.
• go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go.
• go-commander - Go library to simplify CLI workflow.
• go-flags - go command line option parser.
• go-getoptions - Go option parser inspired by the flexibility of Perl’s GetOpt::Long.
• gocmd - Go library for building command line applications.
• hiboot cli - cli application framework with auto configuration and dependency injection.
• job - JOB, make your short-term command as a long-term job.
• kingpin - Command line and flag parser supporting sub commands (superseded by kong; see below).
• liner - Go readline-like library for command-line interfaces.
• mcli - A minimal but very powerful cli library for Go.
• mitchellh/cli - Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
• mkideal/cli - Feature-rich and easy to use command-line package based on golang struct tags.
• mow.cli - Go library for building CLI applications with sophisticated flag and argument parsing and validation.
• ops - Unikernel Builder/Orchestrator.
• pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.
• readline Shell library with modern and easy to use UI features.
• sand - Simple API for creating interpreters and so much more.
• sflags - Struct based flags generator for flag, urfave/cli, pflag, cobra, kingpin, and other libraries.
• strumt - Library to create prompt chain.
• subcmd - Another approach to parsing and running subcommands. Works alongside the standard flag package.
• survey - Build interactive and accessible prompts with full support for windows and posix terminals.
• teris-io/cli - Simple and complete API for building command line interfaces in Go.
• ts - Timestamp convert & compare tool.
• ukautz/clif - Small command line interface framework.
• urfave/cli - Simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (formerly codegangsta/cli).
• version - Collects and displays CLI version information in multiple formats along with upgrade notice.
• wlog - Simple logging interface that supports cross-platform color and concurrency.
• wmenu - Easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompt users to make choices.

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Configuration

Libraries for configuration parsing.

• aconfig - Simple, useful and opinionated config loader.
• bcl - BCL is a configuration language similar to HCL.
• cleanenv - Minimalistic configuration reader (from files, ENV, and wherever you want).
• config - Cloud native application configuration. Bind ENV to structs in only two lines.
• config - configure your app using file, environment variables, or flags in two lines of code
• configuration - Library for initializing configuration structs from env variables, files, flags and 'default' tag.
• configure - Provides configuration through multiple sources, including JSON, flags and environment variables.
• configuro - opinionated configuration loading & validation framework from ENV and Files focused towards 12-Factor compliant applications.
• confiq - Structured data format to config struct decoder library for Go - supporting multiple data formats
• confita - Load configuration in cascade from multiple backends into a struct.
• conflate - Library/tool to merge multiple JSON/YAML/TOML files from arbitrary URLs, validation against a JSON schema, and application of default values defined in the schema.
• env - Parse environment variables to Go structs (with defaults).
• env - A lightweight package for loading environment variables into structs.
• env - An environment utility package with support for unmarshaling into structs
• envconfig - Read your configuration from environment variables.
• envh - Helpers to manage environment variables.
• fig - Tiny library for reading configuration from a file and from environment variables (with validation & defaults).
• genv - Read environment variables easily with dotenv support.
• go-array - A Go package that read or set data from map, slice or json.
• go-aws-ssm - Go package that fetches parameters from AWS System Manager - Parameter Store.
• go-cfg - The library provides a unified way to read configuration data into a structure from various sources, such as env, flags, and configuration files (.json, .yaml, .toml, .env).
• go-conf - Simple library for application configuration based on annotated structs. It supports reading the configuration from environment variables, config files and command line parameters.
• go-ini - A Go package that marshals and unmarshals INI-files.
• go-ssm-config - Go utility for loading configuration parameters from AWS SSM (Parameter Store).
• go-up - A simple configuration library with recursive placeholders resolution and no magic.
• GoCfg - Config manager with Struct Tags based contracts, custom value providers, parsers, and documentation generation. Customizable yet simple.
• goConfig - Parses a struct as input and populates the fields of this struct with parameters from command line, environment variables and configuration file.
• godotenv - Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env).
• gofigure - Go application configuration made easy.
• GoLobby/Config - GoLobby Config is a lightweight yet powerful configuration manager for the Go programming language.
• gone/jconf - Modular JSON configuration. Keep your config structs along with the code they configure and delegate parsing to submodules without sacrificing full config serialization.
• gonfig - Tag-based configuration parser which loads values from different providers into typesafe struct.
• gookit/config - application config manage(load,get,set). support JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, HCL. multi file load, data override merge.
• harvester - Harvester, an easy to use static and dynamic configuration package supporting seeding, env vars and Consul integration.
• hjson - Human JSON, a configuration file format for humans. Relaxed syntax, fewer mistakes, more comments.
• hocon - Configuration library for working with the HOCON(a human-friendly JSON superset) format, supports features like environment variables, referencing other values, comments and multiple files.
• ingo - Flags persisted in an ini-like config file.
• ini - Go package to read and write INI files.
• ini - INI Parser & Write Library, Unmarshal to Struct, Marshal to Json, Write File, watch file.
• joshbetz/config - Small configuration library for Go that parses environment variables, JSON files, and reloads automatically on SIGHUP.
• kelseyhightower/envconfig - Go library for managing configuration data from environment variables.
• koanf - Light weight, extensible library for reading config in Go applications. Built in support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line.
• konf - The simplest API for reading/watching config from file, env, flag and clouds (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• konfig - Composable, observable and performant config handling for Go for the distributed processing era.
• kong - Command-line parser with support for arbitrarily complex command-line structures and additional sources of configuration such as YAML, JSON, TOML, etc (successor to kingpin).
• mini - Golang package for parsing ini-style configuration files.
• nasermirzaei89/env - Simple useful package for read environment variables.
• nfigure - Per-library struct-tag based configuration from command lines (Posix & Go-style); environment, JSON, YAML
• onion - Layer based configuration for Go, Supports JSON, TOML, YAML, properties, etcd, env, and encryption using PGP.
• piper - Viper wrapper with config inheritance and key generation.
• sonic - A blazingly fast JSON serializing & deserializing library.
• store - Lightweight configuration manager for Go.
• swap - Instantiate/configure structs recursively, based on build environment. (YAML, TOML, JSON and env).
• typenv - Minimalistic, zero dependency, typed environment variables library.
• uConfig - Lightweight, zero-dependency, and extendable configuration management.
• viper - Go configuration with fangs.
• xdg - Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories.
• xdg - Cross platform package that follows the XDG Standard.
• yamagiconf - The "safe subset" of YAML for Go configs.

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Continuous Integration

Tools for help with continuous integration.

• abstruse - Abstruse is a distributed CI platform.
• Bencher - A suite of continuous benchmarking tools designed to catch performance regressions in CI.
• CDS - Enterprise-Grade CI/CD and DevOps Automation Open Source Platform.
• dot - A minimal, local first continuous integration system that uses Docker to run jobs concurrently in stages.
• drone - Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker, written in Go.
• go-beautiful-html-coverage - A GitHub Action to track code coverage in your pull requests, with a beautiful HTML preview, for free.
• go-fuzz-action - Use Go 1.18's built-in fuzz testing in GitHub Actions.
• go-semver-release - Automate the semantic versioning of Git repositories.
• go-test-coverage - Tool and GitHub action which reports issues when test coverage is below set threshold.
• gomason - Test, Build, Sign, and Publish your go binaries from a clean workspace.
• gotestfmt - go test output for humans.
• goveralls - Go integration for Coveralls.io continuous code coverage tracking system.
• muffet - Fast website link checker in Go, see alternatives.
• overalls - Multi-Package go project coverprofile for tools like goveralls.
• roveralls - Recursive coverage testing tool.
• woodpecker - Woodpecker is a community fork of the Drone CI system.

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CSS Preprocessors

Libraries for preprocessing CSS files.

• gcss - Pure Go CSS Preprocessor.
• go-libsass - Go wrapper to the 100% Sass compatible libsass project.

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Data Integration Frameworks

Frameworks for performing ELT / ETL

• Benthos - A message streaming bridge between a range of protocols.
• CloudQuery - A high-performance ELT data integration framework with pluggable architecture.
• omniparser - A versatile ETL library that parses text input (CSV/txt/JSON/XML/EDI/X12/EDIFACT/etc) in streaming fashion and transforms data into JSON output using data-driven schema.

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Data Structures and Algorithms

Bit-packing and Compression

• bingo - Fast, zero-allocation, lexicographical-order-preserving packing of native types to bytes.
• binpacker - Binary packer and unpacker helps user build custom binary stream.
• bit - Golang set data structure with bonus bit-twiddling functions.
• crunch - Go package implementing buffers for handling various datatypes easily.
• go-ef - A Go implementation of the Elias-Fano encoding.
• roaring - Go package implementing compressed bitsets.

Bit Sets

• bitmap - Dense, zero-allocation, SIMD-enabled bitmap/bitset in Go.
• bitset - Go package implementing bitsets.

Bloom and Cuckoo Filters

• bloom - Go package implementing Bloom filters.
• bloom - Bloom filters implemented in Go.
• bloom - Golang Bloom filter implementation.
• bloomfilter - Yet another Bloomfilter implementation in Go, compatible with Java's Guava library.
• boomfilters - Probabilistic data structures for processing continuous, unbounded streams.
• cuckoo-filter - Cuckoo filter: a comprehensive cuckoo filter, which is configurable and space optimized compared with other implements, and all features mentioned in original paper are available.
• cuckoofilter - Cuckoo filter: a good alternative to a counting bloom filter implemented in Go.
• ring - Go implementation of a high performance, thread safe bloom filter.

Data Structure and Algorithm Collections

• algorithms - Algorithms and data structures.CLRS study.
• go-datastructures - Collection of useful, performant, and thread-safe data structures.
• gods - Go Data Structures. Containers, Sets, Lists, Stacks, Maps, BidiMaps, Trees, HashSet etc.
• gostl - Data structure and algorithm library for go, designed to provide functions similar to C++ STL.

Iterators

• goterator - Iterator implementation to provide map and reduce functionalities.
• iter - Go implementation of C++ STL iterators and algorithms.

Maps

See also Database for more complex key-value stores, and Trees for additional ordered map implementations.

• cmap - a thread-safe concurrent map for go, support using interface{} as key and auto scale up shards.
• dict - Python-like dictionaries (dict) for Go.
• go-shelve - A persistent, map-like object for the Go programming language. Supports multiple embedded key-value stores.
• goradd/maps - Go 1.18+ generic map interface for maps; safe maps; ordered maps; ordered, safe maps; etc.

Miscellaneous Data Structures and Algorithms

• concurrent-writer - Highly concurrent drop-in replacement for bufio.Writer.
• conjungo - A small, powerful and flexible merge library.
• count-min-log - Go implementation Count-Min-Log sketch: Approximately counting with approximate counters (Like Count-Min sketch but using less memory).
• fsm - Finite-State Machine package.
• genfuncs - Go 1.18+ generics package inspired by Kotlin's Sequence and Map.
• go-generics - Generic slice, map, set, iterator, and goroutine utilities.
• go-geoindex - In-memory geo index.
• go-rampart - Determine how intervals relate to each other.
• go-rquad - Region quadtrees with efficient point location and neighbour finding.
• go-tuple - Generic tuple implementation for Go 1.18+.
• go18ds - Go Data Structures using Go 1.18 generics.
• gofal - fractional api for Go.
• gogu - A comprehensive, reusable and efficient concurrent-safe generics utility functions and data structures library.
• gota - Implementation of dataframes, series, and data wrangling methods for Go.
• hide - ID type with marshalling to/from hash to prevent sending IDs to clients.
• hilbert - Go package for mapping values to and from space-filling curves, such as Hilbert and Peano curves.
• hyperloglog - HyperLogLog implementation with Sparse, LogLog-Beta bias correction and TailCut space reduction.
• quadtree - Generic, zero-alloc, 100%-test covered quadtree.
• slices - Functions that operate on slices; like package strings but adapted to work with slices.
• slices - Pure, generic functions for slices.

Nullable Types

• nan - Zero allocation Nullable structures in one library with handy conversion functions, marshallers and unmarshallers.
• null - Nullable Go types that can be marshalled/unmarshalled to/from JSON.
• typ - Null Types, Safe primitive type conversion and fetching value from complex structures.

Queues

• deque - A highly optimized double-ended queue.
• deque - Fast ring-buffer deque (double-ended queue).
• goconcurrentqueue - Concurrent FIFO queue.
• hatchet - Distributed, Fault-tolerant task queue.
• memlog - An easy to use, lightweight, thread-safe and append-only in-memory data structure inspired by Apache Kafka.
• queue - Multiple thread-safe, generic queue implementations for Go.

Sets

• dsu - Disjoint Set data structure implementation in Go.
• golang-set - Thread-Safe and Non-Thread-Safe high-performance sets for Go.
• goset - A useful Set collection implementation for Go.
• set - Simple set data structure implementation in Go using LinkedHashMap.

Text Analysis

• bleve - Modern text indexing library for go.
• go-adaptive-radix-tree - Go implementation of Adaptive Radix Tree.
• go-edlib - Go string comparison and edit distance algorithms library (Levenshtein, LCS, Hamming, Damerau levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, etc.) compatible with Unicode.
• levenshtein - Levenshtein distance and similarity metrics with customizable edit costs and Winkler-like bonus for common prefix.
• levenshtein - Implementation to calculate levenshtein distance in Go.
• mspm - Multi-String Pattern Matching Algorithm for information retrieval.
• parsefields - Tools for parse JSON-like logs for collecting unique fields and events.
• ptrie - An implementation of prefix tree.
• trie - Trie implementation in Go.

Trees

• hashsplit - Split byte streams into chunks, and arrange chunks into trees, with boundaries determined by content, not position.
• merkle - Space-efficient computation of Merkle root hashes and inclusion proofs.
• skiplist - Very fast Go Skiplist implementation.
• skiplist - Skiplist implementation in Go.
• treap - Persistent, fast ordered map using tree heaps.
• treemap - Generic key-sorted map using a red-black tree under the hood.

Pipes

• ordered-concurrently - Go module that processes work concurrently and returns output in a channel in the order of input.
• parapipe - FIFO Pipeline which parallels execution on each stage while maintaining the order of messages and results.
• pipeline - An implementation of pipelines with fan-in and fan-out.

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Database

Caches

Data stores with expiring records, in-memory distributed data stores, or in-memory subsets of file-based databases.

• 2q - 2Q in-memory cache implementation.
• bcache - Eventually consistent distributed in-memory cache Go library.
• BigCache - Efficient key/value cache for gigabytes of data.
• cache - In-memory key:value store with expiration time, 0 dependencies, <100 LoC, 100% coverage.
• cache2go - In-memory key:value cache which supports automatic invalidation based on timeouts.
• cachego - Golang Cache component for multiple drivers.
• clusteredBigCache - BigCache with clustering support and individual item expiration.
• coherence-go-client - Full implementation of Oracle Coherence cache API for Go applications using gRPC as network transport.
• couchcache - RESTful caching micro-service backed by Couchbase server.
• EchoVault - Embeddable Distributed in-memory data store compatible with Redis clients.
• fastcache - fast thread-safe inmemory cache for big number of entries. Minimizes GC overhead.
• GCache - Cache library with support for expirable Cache, LFU, LRU and ARC.
• gdcache - A pure non-intrusive cache library implemented by golang, you can use it to implement your own distributed cache.
• go-cache - A flexible multi-layer Go caching library to deal with in-memory and shared cache by adopting Cache-Aside pattern.
• go-freelru A GC-less, fast and generic LRU hashmap library with optional locking, sharding, eviction and expiration.
• go-mcache - Fast in-memory key:value store/cache library. Pointer caches.
• gocache - A complete Go cache library with multiple stores (memory, memcache, redis, ...), chainable, loadable, metrics cache and more.
• gocache - A data race free Go ache library with high performance and auto pruge functionality
• groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
• icache - A High Performance, Generic, thread-safe, zero-dependency cache package.
• imcache - A generic in-memory cache Go library. It supports expiration, sliding expiration, max entries limit, eviction callbacks and sharding.
• nscache - A Go caching framework that supports multiple data source drivers.
• otter - A high performance lockless cache for Go. Many times faster than Ristretto and friends.
• pocache - Pocache is a minimal cache package which focuses on a preemptive optimistic caching strategy.
• sturdyc - A caching library with advanced concurrency features designed to make I/O heavy applications robust and highly performant.
• theine - High performance, near optimal in-memory cache with proactive TTL expiration and generics.
• timedmap - Map with expiring key-value pairs.
• ttlcache - An in-memory cache with item expiration and generics.
• ttlcache - In-memory key value storage with TTL for each record.

Databases Implemented in Go

• badger - Fast key-value store in Go.
• bbolt - An embedded key/value database for Go.
• Bitcask - Bitcask is an embeddable, persistent and fast key-value (KV) database written in pure Go with predictable read/write performance, low latency and high throughput thanks to the bitcask on-disk layout (LSM+WAL).
• buntdb - Fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and spatial support.
• clover - A lightweight document-oriented NoSQL database written in pure Golang.
• cockroach - Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore.
• Coffer - Simple ACID key-value database that supports transactions.
• column - High-performance, columnar, embeddable in-memory store with bitmap indexing and transactions.
• CovenantSQL - CovenantSQL is a SQL database on blockchain.
• Databunker - Personally identifiable information (PII) storage service built to comply with GDPR and CCPA.
• dgraph - Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph Database.
• diskv - Home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
• dolt - Dolt – It's Git for Data.
• dtf - A distributed transaction manager. Support XA, TCC, SAGA, Reliable Messages.
• eliasdb - Dependency-free, transactional graph database with REST API, phrase search and SQL-like query language.
• godis - A Golang implemented high-performance Redis server and cluster.
• goleveldb - Implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in Go.
• hare - A simple database management system that stores each table as a text file of line-delimited JSON.
• immudb - immudb is a lightweight, high-speed immutable database for systems and applications written in Go.
• influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
• ledisdb - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
• levigo - Levigo is a Go wrapper for LevelDB.
• libradb - LibraDB is a simple database with less than 1000 lines of code for learning.
• LinDB - LinDB is a scalable, high performance, high availability distributed time series database.
• lotusdb - Fast k/v database compatible with lsm and b+tree.
• Milvus - Milvus is a vector database for embedding management, analytics and search.
• moss - Moss is a simple LSM key-value storage engine written in 100% Go.
• nutsdb - Nutsdb is a simple, fast, embeddable, persistent key/value store written in pure Go. It supports fully serializable transactions and many data structures such as list, set, sorted set.
• objectbox-go - High-performance embedded Object Database (NoSQL) with Go API.
• pebble - RocksDB/LevelDB inspired key-value database in Go.
• piladb - Lightweight RESTful database engine based on stack data structures.
• pogreb - Embedded key-value store for read-heavy workloads.
• prometheus - Monitoring system and time series database.
• pudge - Fast and simple key/value store written using Go's standard library.
• redka - Redis re-implemented with SQLite.
• rosedb - An embedded k-v database based on LSM+WAL, supports string, list, hash, set, zset.
• rotom - A tiny Redis server built with Golang, compatible with RESP protocols.
• rqlite - The lightweight, distributed, relational database built on SQLite.
• tempdb - Key-value store for temporary items.
• tidb - TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1.
• tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
• unitdb - Fast timeseries database for IoT, realtime messaging applications. Access unitdb with pubsub over tcp or websocket using github.com/unit-io/unitd application.
• Vasto - A distributed high-performance key-value store. On Disk. Eventual consistent. HA. Able to grow or shrink without service interruption.
• VictoriaMetrics - fast, resource-effective and scalable open source time series database. May be used as long-term remote storage for Prometheus. Supports PromQL.

Database Schema Migration

• atlas - A Database Toolkit. A CLI designed to help companies better work with their data.
• avro - Discover SQL schemas and convert them to AVRO schemas. Query SQL records into AVRO bytes.
• bytebase - Safe database schema change and version control for DevOps teams.
• darwin - Database schema evolution library for Go.
• dbmate - A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.
• go-fixtures - Django style fixtures for Golang's excellent built-in database/sql library.
• go-pg-migrate - CLI-friendly package for go-pg migrations management.
• go-pg-migrations - A Go package to help write migrations with go-pg/pg.
• goavro - A Go package that encodes and decodes Avro data.
• godfish - Database migration manager, works with native query language. Support for cassandra, mysql, postgres, sqlite3.
• goose - Database migration tool. You can manage your database's evolution by creating incremental SQL or Go scripts.
• gorm-seeder - Simple database seeder for Gorm ORM.
• gormigrate - Database schema migration helper for Gorm ORM.
• libschema - Define your migrations separately in each library. Migrations for open source libraries. MySQL & PostgreSQL.
• migrate - Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.
• migrator - Dead simple Go database migration library.
• migrator - MySQL database migrator designed to run migrations to your features and manage database schema update with intuitive go code.
• schema - Library to embed schema migrations for database/sql-compatible databases inside your Go binaries.
• skeema - Pure-SQL schema management system for MySQL, with support for sharding and external online schema change tools.
• soda - Database migration, creation, ORM, etc... for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
• sql-migrate - Database migration tool. Allows embedding migrations into the application using go-bindata.
• sqlize - Database migration generator. Allows generate sql migration from model and existing sql by differ them.

Database Tools

• chproxy - HTTP proxy for ClickHouse database.
• clickhouse-bulk - Collects small inserts and sends big requests to ClickHouse servers.
• dbbench - Database benchmarking tool with support for several databases and scripts.
• dg - A fast data generator that produces CSV files from generated relational data.
• dynago - Simplify working with AWS DynamoDB.
• gatewayd - Cloud-native database gateway and framework for building data-driven applications. Like API gateways, for databases.
• go-mysql - Go toolset to handle MySQL protocol and replication.
• gorm-multitenancy - Multi-tenancy support for GORM managed databases.
• hasql - Library for accessing multi-host SQL database installations.
• octillery - Go package for sharding databases ( Supports every ORM or raw SQL ).
• onedump - Database backup from different drivers to different destinations with one command and configuration.
• pg_timetable - Advanced scheduling for PostgreSQL.
• pgweb - Web-based PostgreSQL database browser.
• prep - Use prepared SQL statements without changing your code.
• pREST - Simplify and accelerate development, ⚡ instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new.
• rdb - Redis RDB file parser for secondary development and memory analysis.
• rwdb - rwdb provides read replica capability for multiple database servers setup.
• vitess - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.
• wescale - WeScale is a database proxy designed to enhance the scalability, performance, security, and resilience of your applications.

SQL Query Builders

Libraries for building and using SQL.

• bqb - Lightweight and easy to learn query builder.
• buildsqlx - Go database query builder library for PostgreSQL.
• builq - Easily build SQL queries in Go.
• dbq - Zero boilerplate database operations for Go.
• Dotsql - Go library that helps you keep sql files in one place and use them with ease.
• gendry - Non-invasive SQL builder and powerful data binder.
• godbal - Database Abstraction Layer (dbal) for go. Support SQL builder and get result easily.
• goqu - Idiomatic SQL builder and query library.
• gosql - SQL Query builder with better null values support.
• Hotcoal - Secure your handcrafted SQL against injection.
• igor - Abstraction layer for PostgreSQL that supports advanced functionality and uses gorm-like syntax.
• jet - Framework for writing type-safe SQL queries in Go, with ability to easily convert database query result into desired arbitrary object structure.
• ormlite - Lightweight package containing some ORM-like features and helpers for sqlite databases.
• ozzo-dbx - Powerful data retrieval methods as well as DB-agnostic query building capabilities.
• qry - Tool that generates constants from files with raw SQL queries.
• sg - A SQL Gen for generating standard SQLs(supports: CRUD) written in Go.
• sq - Type-safe SQL builder and struct mapper for Go.
• sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL.
• sqlf - Fast SQL query builder.
• sqlingo - A lightweight DSL to build SQL in Go.
• sqrl - SQL query builder, fork of Squirrel with improved performance.
• Squalus - Thin layer over the Go SQL package that makes it easier to perform queries.
• Squirrel - Go library that helps you build SQL queries.
• xo - Generate idiomatic Go code for databases based on existing schema definitions or custom queries supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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Database Drivers

Interfaces to Multiple Backends

• cayley - Graph database with support for multiple backends.
• dsc - Datastore connectivity for SQL, NoSQL, structured files.
• dynamo - A simple key-value abstraction to store algebraic and linked-data data types at AWS storage services: AWS DynamoDB and AWS S3.
• go-transaction-manager - Transaction manager with multiple adapters (sql, sqlx, gorm, mongo, ...) controls transaction boundaries.
• gokv - Simple key-value store abstraction and implementations for Go (Redis, Consul, etcd, bbolt, BadgerDB, LevelDB, Memcached, DynamoDB, S3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB and many more).

Relational Database Drivers

• avatica - Apache Avatica/Phoenix SQL driver for database/sql.
• bgc - Datastore Connectivity for BigQuery for go.
• firebirdsql - Firebird RDBMS SQL driver for Go.
• go-adodb - Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that uses database/sql.
• go-mssqldb - Microsoft MSSQL driver for Go.
• go-oci8 - Oracle driver for go that uses database/sql.
• go-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Go.
• go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that uses database/sql.
• godror - Oracle driver for Go, using the ODPI-C driver.
• gofreetds - Microsoft MSSQL driver. Go wrapper over FreeTDS.
• KSQL - A Simple and Powerful Golang SQL Library
• pgx - PostgreSQL driver supporting features beyond those exposed by database/sql.
• pig - Simple pgx wrapper to execute and scan query results easily.
• pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.
• Sqinn-Go - SQLite with pure Go.
• sqlhooks - Attach hooks to any database/sql driver.
• surrealdb.go - SurrealDB Driver for Go.
• ydb-go-sdk - native and database/sql driver YDB (Yandex Database)

NoSQL Database Drivers

• aerospike-client-go - Aerospike client in Go language.
• arangolite - Lightweight golang driver for ArangoDB.
• asc - Datastore Connectivity for Aerospike for go.
• forestdb - Go bindings for ForestDB.
• go-couchbase - Couchbase client in Go.
• go-mongox - A Go Mongo library based on the official driver, featuring streamlined document operations, generic binding of structs to collections, built-in CRUD, aggregation, automated field updates, struct validation, hooks, and plugin-based programming.
• go-pilosa - Go client library for Pilosa.
• go-rejson - Golang client for redislabs' ReJSON module using Redigo golang client. Store and manipulate structs as JSON objects in redis with ease.
• gocb - Official Couchbase Go SDK.
• gocosmos - REST client and standard database/sql driver for Azure Cosmos DB.
• gocql - Go language driver for Apache Cassandra.
• godis - redis client implement by golang, inspired by jedis.
• godscache - A wrapper for the Google Cloud Platform Go Datastore package that adds caching using memcached.
• gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.
• gomemcached - A binary Memcached client for Go with support for sharding using consistent hashing, along with SASL.
• gorethink - Go language driver for RethinkDB.
• goriak - Go language driver for Riak KV.
• Kivik - Kivik provides a common Go and GopherJS client library for CouchDB, PouchDB, and similar databases.
• mgm - MongoDB model-based ODM for Go (based on official MongoDB driver).
• mgo - (unmaintained) MongoDB driver for the Go language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Go idioms.
• mongo-go-driver - Official MongoDB driver for the Go language.
• neo4j - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang.
• Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
• neoism - Neo4j client for Golang.
• qmgo - The MongoDB driver for Go. It‘s based on official MongoDB driver but easier to use like Mgo.
• redeo - Redis-protocol compatible TCP servers/services.
• redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
• redis - Redis client for Golang.
• rueidis - Fast Redis RESP3 client with auto pipelining and server-assisted client side caching.
• xredis - Typesafe, customizable, clean & easy to use Redis client.

Search and Analytic Databases

• clickhouse-go - ClickHouse SQL client for Go with a database/sql compatibility.
• effdsl - Elasticsearch query builder for Go.
• elastic - Elasticsearch client for Go.
• elasticsql - Convert sql to elasticsearch dsl in Go.
• elastigo - Elasticsearch client library.
• go-elasticsearch - Official Elasticsearch client for Go.
• goes - Library to interact with Elasticsearch.
• skizze - probabilistic data-structures service and storage.

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Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• approx - A Duration extension supporting parsing/printing durations in days, weeks and years.
• carbon - A simple, semantic and developer-friendly golang package for datetime.
• carbon - Simple Time extension with a lot of util methods, ported from PHP Carbon library.
• cronrange - Parses Cron-style time range expressions, checks if the given time is within any ranges.
• date - Augments Time for working with dates, date ranges, time spans, periods, and time-of-day.
• dateparse - Parse date's without knowing format in advance.
• durafmt - Time duration formatting library for Go.
• feiertage - Set of functions to calculate public holidays in Germany, incl. specialization on the states of Germany (Bundesländer). Things like Easter, Pentecost, Thanksgiving...
• go-anytime - Parse dates/times like "next dec 22nd at 3pm" and ranges like "from today until next thursday" without knowing the format in advance.
• go-datebin - A simple datetime parse pkg.
• go-persian-calendar - The implementation of the Persian (Solar Hijri) Calendar in Go (golang).
• go-str2duration - Convert string to duration. Support time.Duration returned string and more.
• go-sunrise - Calculate the sunrise and sunset times for a given location.
• go-week - An efficient package to work with ISO8601 week dates.
• gostradamus - A Go package for working with dates.
• iso8601 - Efficiently parse ISO8601 date-times without regex.
• kair - Date and Time - Golang Formatting Library.
• now - Now is a time toolkit for golang.
• strftime - C99-compatible strftime formatter.
• timespan - For interacting with intervals of time, defined as a start time and a duration.
• timeutil - Useful extensions (Timedelta, Strftime, ...) to the golang's time package.
• tuesday - Ruby-compatible Strftime function.

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Distributed Systems

Packages that help with building Distributed Systems.

• arpc - More effective network communication, support two-way-calling, notify, broadcast.
• bedrock - Provides a minimal, modular and composable foundation for quickly developing services and more use case specific frameworks in Go.
• capillaries - distributed batch data processing framework.
• celeriac - Library for adding support for interacting and monitoring Celery workers, tasks and events in Go.
• consistent - Consistent hashing with bounded loads.
• consistenthash - Consistent hashing with configurable replicas.
• dht - BitTorrent Kademlia DHT implementation.
• digota - grpc ecommerce microservice.
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