SVC

Stochastic Vehicular Constabulary

Snarky Vampires Cavorting

Soggy View Controller

Superb Vanishing Carrots*

Or, perhaps, a service framework of some kind.

(But seriously....)

At Anki we built a lot of REST and GRPC services in Go, and had built up a clean and fully featured framework for building cloud service projects. It covered handling the basics of making a well behaved process with a defined startup and graceful shutdown lifecycle, composition of shared components, standard handlers and interceptors, integrated with command line handling and standardized logging and metrics and multiple authentication systems.

It was my hope that we'd be able to remove the product-specific bits that inevitably crept in and open-source it one day, but that hope died when Anki abruptly shut down.

Now that I'm working on some personal projects again in Go, I find myself needing that again, so this is my attempt to recreate part of it from scratch, but better this time.

* Apologies to npm