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Kitex [kaɪt'eks] is a high-performance and strong-extensibility Golang RPC framework that helps developers build microservices. If the performance and extensibility are the main concerns when you develop microservices, Kitex can be a good choice.
- High Performance
Kitex integrates Netpoll, a high-performance network library, which offers significant performance advantage over go net.
- Extensibility
Kitex provides many interfaces with default implementation for users to customize. You can extend or inject them into Kitex to fulfill your needs (please refer to the framework extension section below).
- Multi-message Protocol
Kitex is designed to be extensible to support multiple RPC messaging protocols. The initial release contains support for Thrift, Kitex Protobuf and gRPC, in which Kitex Protobuf is a Kitex custom Protobuf messaging protocol with a protocol format similar to Thrift. Kitex also supports developers extending their own messaging protocols.
- Multi-transport Protocol
For service governance, Kitex supports TTHeader and HTTP2. TTHeader can be used in conjunction with Thrift and Kitex Protobuf; HTTP2 is currently mainly used with the gRPC protocol, and it will support Thrift in the future.
- Multi-message Type
Kitex supports PingPong, One-way, and Bidirectional Streaming. Among them, One-way currently only supports Thrift protocol, two-way Streaming only supports gRPC, and Kitex will support Thrift's two-way Streaming in the future.
- Service Governance
Kitex integrates service governance modules such as service registry, service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaker, rate limiting, retry, monitoring, tracing, logging, diagnosis, etc. Most of these have been provided with default extensions, and users can choose to integrate.
- Code Generation
Kitex has built-in code generation tools that support generating Thrift, Protobuf, and scaffold code.
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User Guide
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Basic Features
Including Message Type, Supported Protocols, Directly Invoke, Connection Pool, Timeout Control, Request Retry, LoadBalancer, Circuit Breaker, Rate Limiting, Instrumentation Control, Logging and HttpResolver, learn more
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Governance Features
Supporting Service Discovery, Monitoring, Tracing and Customized Access Control, learn more
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Advanced Features
Supporting Generic Call and Server SDK Mode, learn more
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Code Generation
Including Code Generation Tool and Combined Service, learn more
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Framework Extension
Providing Middleware Extensions, Suite Extensions, Service Registry, Service Discovery, Customize LoadBalancer, Monitoring, Logging, Codec, Transport Module, Transport Pipeline, Metadata Transparent Transmission, Diagnosis Module, learn more
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Reference
- For Transport Protocol, Exception Instruction and Version Specification, please refer to doc
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FAQ
We compared the performance of Kitex with some popular RPC frameworks (benchmark), such as gRPC and RPCX, both using Protobuf. The test results show that Kitex performs better.
Note: The performance benchmarks obtained from the experiment are for reference only, because there are many factors that can affect the actual performance in application scenarios.
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5118 CPU @ 2.30GHz, 4 cores
- Memory: 8GB
- OS: Debian 5.4.56.bsk.1-amd64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- Go: 1.15.4
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- Netpoll: A high-performance network library.
- kitex-contrib: A partial extension library of Kitex, which users can integrate into Kitex through options according to their needs.
- Example: Use examples of Kitex.
- Performance Optimization Practice of Go RPC framework Kitex
- Practice of ByteDance on Go Network Library
Kitex is distributed under the Apache License, version 2.0. The licenses of third party dependencies of Kitex are explained here.
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