Kitex

Kitex

Kitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed by ByteDance. It supports Thrift and Protocol Buffers serialization, provides built-in service governance features including service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, and retry policies, and is optimized for high throughput and low latency.

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kitex/refs/heads/main/json-schema/kitex-configuration.json

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kitex:kitex
name: Kitex
description: Kitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed
  by ByteDance. It supports Thrift and Protocol Buffers serialization, provides built-in service governance
  features including service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, and retry policies, and is optimized
  for high throughput and low latency.
humanURL: https://www.cloudwego.io/docs/kitex/
tags:
- Frameworks
- Go
- High Performance
- Microservices
- Protocol Buffers
- RPC
- Thrift
properties:
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kitex/refs/heads/main/json-schema/kitex-configuration.json