# Go Micro [![License](https://img.shields.io/:license-apache-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/micro/go-micro) [![Travis CI](https://api.travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/micro/go-micro) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/micro/go-micro)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/micro/go-micro)
Go Micro is a pluggable framework for micro service development.
## Overview
Go Micro provides the core requirements for distributed systems development including RPC and Event driven communication.
The **micro** philosophy is sane defaults with a pluggable architecture. We provide defaults to get you started quickly
but everything can be easily swapped out.
Plugins are available at [github.com/micro/go-plugins](https://github.com/micro/go-plugins).
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## Features
Go Micro abstracts away the details of distributed systems. Here are the main features.
- **Service Discovery** - Automatic service registration and name resolution (default: consul or mdns)
- **Load Balancing** - Client side load balancing built on discovery (default: random hashed)
- **Message Encoding** - Dynamic encoding based on content-type (default: protobuf and json-rpc)
- **Sync Streaming** - RPC based request/response with support for bidirectional streaming (default: http/1.1 and http2)
- **Async Messaging** - Native pubsub messaging built in for event driven architectures (default: point to point http)
## Getting Started
See the [docs](https://micro.mu/docs/go-micro.html) for detailed information on the architecture, installation and use of go-micro.
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