TOtomcam·Aug 29, 2020Submission
Gearbox: A web framework for building micro services written in Go
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Gearbox :gear: is a web framework written in Go with a focus on high performance
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5 sourcesBenchmark results has been published (https://github.com/gogearbox/gearbox#benchmarks)
In Gearbox: A web framework written in Go with a focus on high performanceGearbox: A web framework written in Go with a focus on high performance
3 points · Open discussionWith the performance coming from being based on fasthttp, what does the framework offer on top? The README doesn't really mention any features explicitly (other than soft ones like "secure" and "fast").
A comparison with other fasthttp-based frameworks like https://github.com/savsgio/atreugo or https://github.com/gofiber/fiber would also be interesting.
Or maybe a benchmark along the lines of https://github.com/smallnest/go-web-framework-benchmark.
Looking at the commit history (7 commits, most of them from yesterday), the open issues (no way to define URL path variables yet, https://github.com/abahmed/gearbox/issues/15), and the release being v0.0.1, maybe it's a bit too early for a ShowHN?
But if you have a vision of how it will be different and better than existing frameworks and the willingness to keep working on your project, then ho
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nestly good luck with it, it might become interesting in the future!
Gearbox – A web framework written in Go
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