Zap Logger

Pkg Url : https://github.com/uber-go/zap

1. It is very fast in comparision to other golang logging packages.
2. It provides both structured logging and printf style logging.
3. It includes reflection-free, zero-allocation JSON encoder.
4. The base 'Logger' avoids serialization overhead and allocations wherever possible.
5. The base 'Logger' only supports strongly-typed, structured logging. Advisable to use where every microsecond and every allocation matter.
6. The 'SuggaredLogger' is a bit slower in comparision to base 'Logger' as it supports both structured and printf-style logging.

Prometehus

Pkg Url : https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang

1. It is used as a monitoring tool.
2. It can provide insight on hardware and software metrics like response latency, resource overload, app errors, request count, request duration, etc.
3. Provides automated monitoring coupled with alerting.
4. Edge over other monitoring tools like NewRelic, datadog, etc. with polling strategy to pull metrics rather than pushing [by apps/services] to monitoring tools.
5. Human readable text based format for dsiplaying metrics.

Realize

Pkg Url : https://github.com/oxequa/realize

1. This is used as a watcher like nodemon in nodejs.
2. High performance Live Reload.
3. Custom env variables for project.
4. Manage multiple projects at the same time.

GRPC over Rest

Pkg Url : google.golang.org/grpc & github.com/hitesh-sureify/grpc-template/proto

1. Protobuf instead of JSON : Protobuf serializes and deserializes structured data to communicate via binary.
2. Built on HTTP 2 instead of HTTP 1.1 : supports bidirectional client-response communication.
3. Code generation features are native to gRPC via its in-built protoc compiler versus use a third-party tool such as Swagger to auto-generate the code for API calls.
4. gRPC is approx 7 times faster than REST when receiving data & almost 10 times faster than REST when sending data for a specific payload.

grpc-template

Pre-Requisite

• protoc must be installed

Step 1 : Define communication protocol

• Define message types and services in a .proto file. Example format : proto-file
• Compile the .proto file using a proto compiler protoc using command format : protoc --proto_path= --go_out=.
• After successfull complilation, a .pb.go file will get created.

Step 2 : Implementation of service interface

• In '.go' file where service needs to be implemented, import the auto-generated .pg.go file. Please see : service-implementation.
• Implement ServiceServer interface here.

Step 3 : Create a client and implement client interface

• In '.go' file where client needs to be implemented, import the auto-generated .pg.go file. Please see :
  1. rest-client-implementation.
  2. cmd-client-implementation
• Implement ServiceClient interface here.