mcore - Microservice Core

Re-usable codebase for Go microservices. This is the codebase used at XSNews for quickly creating microservices without re-inventing the wheel everytime with regards to the outside/infrastructure.

• config Abstract the repetetive JSON config parsing.

• dates Simple string interval parser. Converting '1w', time.Now() to next week's time.Time.

• log Abstract logging policy (stdout/stderr/prefix/debugmsg)

• metrics Abstract counter and gauge implementations

• valid Validate user input by validating the in-memory struct's annotations.

Microservice inspiration: https://talks.bitexpert.de/phpbnl15-microservices/#/