Framework Introduction

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What is dubbo-go

Dubbo-go is the Go language implementation of Apache Dubbo, fully adhering to Apache Dubbo’s design principles and goals, and serves as an excellent microservices development framework in the Go language domain. Dubbo-go offers:

API and RPC Protocols: Solves RPC communication problems between components, providing HTTP/1/2 based communication protocols and streaming communication models.
Rich Microservice Governance Capability: Addresses service discovery, traffic control, observability, full-link tracing, logging, and other overall solutions for microservices.

Concepts and Architecture

Below is the overall architecture diagram of dubbo-go:

Version Information

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Recommended Versions

The current website documentation targets the actively maintained Dubbo Go SDK 3.3.x line. If you are using a different dubbo-go version, please check the corresponding historical documents and release notes.

Go	Dubbo-go	protoc-gen-go-triple	Description
1.25	v3.3.2-20260419	bundled tool	Current 3.3.2 dated tag, matching the main docs
1.24	v3.3.1	bundled tool	Latest regular 3.3.x release, recommended for new projects

Note

Use the latest patch release in the same 3.3.x line when possible. The generated Triple code should be produced by the protoc-gen-go-triple tool shipped in the dubbo-go repository under tools/protoc-gen-go-triple.

Historical note

Older 3.x releases may reference the former standalone protoc-gen-go-triple or dubbogo-cli repositories. Those links are kept below as historical context for those versions. Current tooling lives in the dubbo-go repository under tools/.

Historical Versions

3.x

View documentation for earlier 3.x versions:

Golang SDK on Apache Dubbo