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Nitro License Docs

Nitro is a futuristic blazingly fast embeddable framework for distributed app development, IoT, edge and p2p.

Go to Micro for Micro. Go to M3O for a managed version (micro as a service)

Overview

Nitro will provide the core requirements for distributed app development, IoT, edge and p2p including RPC and Event driven communication. The Nitro mantra is in-memory defaults with a pluggable architecture. Blaze with pure in-memory development and swap out as needed to go multi-process or multi-host.

Note: Nitro is currently undergoing a complete rewrite and is considered unstable for use.

Features

Nitro focuses on dapps, IoT, edge and p2p.

Features in development:

  • Lightweight RPC based communication
  • Event broadcasting and notifications
  • CRDT Data synchronisation and storage
  • Consensus protocol and execution engine
  • WebAssembly target compilation support
  • Unique randomized token generation aka BLS
  • P2P gossip networking stack in userspace

Future

In the future there's the potential to launch a live network based on Nitro. More on that soon.

Docs

See gonitro.dev/docs

Discussion

See nitro/discussions for any discussions, development, etc.

FAQ

See the FAQ doc for frequently asked questions.

What happened to Go Micro?

Go Micro has now been renamed to Nitro. Go Micro moved back to being a personal project and no longer lives under the organisation github.com/micro. The company is now doubling down on Micro itself and has pulled in the needed interfaces to consolidate a Server, Framework and CLI into one tool. Go Micro is now no longer maintained by a company. Yet it continued to create confusion even as a personal repo. So for that reason, we're renaming to Nitro. Go Micro V2 has been archived at micro-community/go-micro and the plugins at micro-community/go-plugins.

Why has the license changed from Apache 2.0 to Polyform Shield.

Micro-Community/Nitro is open source but makes use of the Polyform Shield license to protect against AWS running it as a managed service.

Where are all the plugins?

The plugins now live in github.com/micro-community/nitro-plugins. This was to reduce the overall size and scope of Go Micro to purely a set of interfaces and standard library implementations. Go Plugins is Apache 2.0 licensed but relies on Nitro interfaces and so again can only be used in Polyform Shield scope.

License

Polyform Noncommercial.