The Go-Microservice generator

Installation

Install Git, node.js, and Go 1.4.2, I suggest using gvm.

Install Yeoman:

npm install -g yo

Install the Go-Microservice generator:

npm install -g generator-go-microservice

Creating a go service

In a new directory, generate the service:

yo go-microservice

Get the dependencies:

goop install

Run the service:

goop exec go run server.go

Your service will run at http://localhost:9001.

Simple apache Bench results for the 3 Libraries

ab -n 5000 http://localhost:9001/

Echo

Complete requests:      5000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      580000 bytes
HTML transferred:       70000 bytes
Requests per second:    4435.47 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       0.225 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.225 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          502.46 [Kbytes/sec] received

http

Complete requests:      5000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      655000 bytes
HTML transferred:       70000 bytes
Requests per second:    4660.73 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       0.215 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.215 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          596.25 [Kbytes/sec] received

httprouter

Complete requests:      5000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      655000 bytes
HTML transferred:       70000 bytes
Requests per second:    4935.01 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       0.203 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.203 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          631.33 [Kbytes/sec] received