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Micro addresses the key requirements for building microservice systems. It takes the microservice architecture pattern and transforms it into a set of tools which act as the building blocks for scalable platforms. Micro hides the complexity of distributed systems and provides well understood concepts to developers.

Overview

The main piece of software provided is Micro, a microservice development runtime.

Features

The runtime is composed of the following features:

• api: An api gateway. A single entry point with dynamic request routing using service discovery. The API gateway allows you to build a scalable microservice architecture on the backend and consolidate serving a public api on the frontend. The micro api provides powerful routing via discovery and pluggable handlers to serve http, grpc, websockets, publish events and more.

• bot: A slackbot which runs on your platform and lets you manage your applications from Slack itself. The micro bot enables ChatOps and gives you the ability to do everything with your team via messaging. It also includes ability to create slack commands as services which are discovered dynamically.

• cli: An interactive CLI to describe, query and interact directly with your platform and services from the terminal. The CLI gives you all the commands you expect to understand what’s happening with your micro services. It also includes an interactive mode.

• network: Build multi-cloud networks with the micro network service. Simply drop-in and connect the network services across any environment and create a single flat network to route globally. The micro network dynamically builds routes based on your local registry in each datacenter ensuring queries are routed based on locality.

• new: A service template generator. Create new service templates to get started quickly. Micro provides predefined templates for writing micro services. Always start in the same way, build identical services to be more productive.

• proxy: A transparent service proxy built on Go Micro. Offload service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, message encoding, middleware, monitoring and more to a single a location. Run it standalone or alongside your service.

• tunnel: A network tunnel to get access to services in any environment without the need for a vpn. The micro tunnel provides point to point tunnelling with a built-in proxy to query services in remote environments. Query production systems from your local laptop.

• web: The web dashboard allows you to explore your services, describe their endpoints, the request and response formats and even query them directly. The dashboard also includes a built in CLI like experience for developers who want to drop into the terminal on the fly.

Additionally micro provides a Go development framework:

• go-micro: Leverage the powerful Go Micro framework to develop microservices easily and quickly. Go Micro abstracts away the complexity of distributed systems and provides simpler abstractions to build highly scalable microservices.# Getting Started

Getting Started

• Framework - Start writing services using the go-micro framework.
• Runtime - Manage your services using the micro runtime.
• Network - Publicly share and host your services on the network.
• Examples - Learn by example with real code examples
• Community - Join the the community and start collaborating on slack