gofoomo

Gofoomo lets you use Go in your foomo project. It also lets you use php in your Go project.

We want to use Go, but it is not the right language for everyone, who is using php. Php´s save and reload work cycle in combination with it´s dynamic character is a great fit especially when doing frontend work.

Complementing your LAMP stack

Go is a much younger and cleaner stack than LAMP.

• Serve static files without bugging your prefork apache
• Keep slow connections away from your php processes (not implemented yet)
• Hijack foomo json rpc services methods
• Your code is also running the server, this puts you in a place, where you can solve problems, that you can not solve in php
• Go´s runtime model is pretty much the opposite of the php runtime model
  • all requests vs one request per lifetime
  • shared memory vs process and memory isolation
  • one bug to kill them all vs one bug kills one request
  • hard, but fast vs easy but slow

Sitting in front of your foomo LAMP app with Go

Go or php? It is up to you, to decide which tool provides better solutions for your problem and who on your team will be more productive with php or Go.

Hijacking json rpc calls

Gofoomo lets you intercept and implement calls to foomo json rpc services. In addition Foomo.Go gives you an infrastructure to generate golang structs for php value objects.

Access foomo configurations

Gofoomo gives you access to foomo configurations from Go. Hint: if your php configuration objects are well annotated they are essentially value objects and corresponding structs can easily be generated with Foomo.Go.

More to come, but not much more

We are going to add features, as we are going to need them. The focus is to have a simple interface between foomo and Go.