gokit is a working name for a distributed programming toolkit to serve the needs of the modern service-oriented enterprise.

• GitHub repository -- RFCs, issues, PRs, etc.
• go-kit mailing list
• Freenode #gokit

See the motivating blog post and, eventually, the video of the talk.

• Operate in a heterogeneous SOA -- expect to interact with mostly non-gokit services
• RPC as the messaging pattern
• Pluggable serialization and transport -- not just JSON over HTTP
• Zipkin-compatible request tracing
• more TODO

• Having opinions on deployment, orchestration, process supervision
• Having opinions on configuration passing -- flags vs. env vars vs. files vs. ...
• more TODO

• Kite, a micro-service framework
• go-micro, a microservices client/server library
• gocircuit, dynamic cloud orchestration
• gotalk, async peer communication protocol & library

• afex/hystrix-go, client-side latency and fault tolerance library
• streadway/handy, net/http handler filters
• rubyist/circuitbreaker, circuit breaker library
• spacemonkeygo/monitor, data collection, monitoring, instrumentation, and Zipkin client library
• mattheath/phosphor, distributed system tracing
• codahale/lunk, structured logging in the style of Google's Dapper or Twitter's Zipkin
• sourcegraph/apptrace, application tracing system based on Google's Dapper
• eapache/go-resiliency, resiliency patterns
• FogCreek/logging, a tagged style of logging
• Sirupsen/logrus, structured, pluggable logging for Go

• Gorilla
• Revel
• Gin
• Martini
• Negroni
• Goji
• Beego

• Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure -- Google
• Your Server as a Function (PDF) -- Twitter
• Architecting for the Cloud -- Netflix