Micro
Infrastructure
microservices platform
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 11 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.55.
Idea: 1 for, 9 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters find the Go-based approach and documentation usable as a starter kit
From 1 comment
After cursory reading the docs, I do not feel that it's tied to GCP, only Kubernetes. It could be a nice starter kit, but obviously I would not recommend migrating to it just…
pantulis on HN
Objections
Polyform Shield license has a noncompete clause, so it is not open source
From 4 comments
The license[0] for this project might be problematic. It is worded very vague and far reaching. [0]: https://github.com/micro/micro/blob/master/LICENSE
mzi on HNThis is a commercial license, but it's not even a remote approximation of “open source”, so the references to “commercial open source” and comparisons to the AGPL (which is a…
dragonwriter on HNhttps://opensource.org/osd “6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.…
dragonwriter on HN> I guess we are just going to see more cases of overlapping branding for FOSS This isn’t FOSS, its offered under a proprietary shared-source license.
dragonwriter on HN
Noncompete makes it risky for businesses to depend on
From 3 comments
Yeah, the non-compete term makes it particularly radioactive.
dragonwriter on HN> Unless you’re not using it to compete. Well, if you thoroughly explore the licensors current business so as to assure yourself that that’s not an issue, and are willing to…
dragonwriter on HNI don't use nonfree software when I can avoid doing so, personally. Professionally, I assiduously avoid using it ever in important server infrastructure, such as anything "cloud…
sneak on HN
Unclear why a developer would need it versus standard Go web frameworks and gRPC
From 1 comment
Spoken as someone who doesn't like Go one bit - why would I ever need this? Can't I just use any web framework I like in Go and the official gRPC libray? Conversely, can't I just…
jokethrowaway on HN
Tied to Kubernetes and Go learning curve, hard to switch from AWS
From 1 comment
It's a hard sell for me at least. The downside to this is that it's tied to Google Cloud and requires learning Go while AWS has been offering this for years with a familiar…
f430 on HN
Questions
Why not just use a Go web framework and the gRPC library directly?
From 1 comment
Spoken as someone who doesn't like Go one bit - why would I ever need this? Can't I just use any web framework I like in Go and the official gRPC libray? Conversely, can't I just…
jokethrowaway on HN
Which libraries do people use for Go side projects?
From 1 comment
Tangent from the discussion: I am thinking to start using to develop some side projects. What are the industry practices in terms of which libraries to use? Could someone share…
aryamaan on HN
Alternatives named
Echo and Gorm
From 1 comment
For Go, there is no industry standard yet, but I've been using Echo for years now and love it. I also use Gorm for handling dealing with MySQL, both have made development in Go…
dougbarrett on HN
AWS services
From 1 comment
It's a hard sell for me at least. The downside to this is that it's tied to Google Cloud and requires learning Go while AWS has been offering this for years with a familiar…
f430 on HN
Go Micro / other web frameworks with gRPC
From 1 comment
Spoken as someone who doesn't like Go one bit - why would I ever need this? Can't I just use any web framework I like in Go and the official gRPC libray? Conversely, can't I just…
jokethrowaway on HN