GoFr: Building India’s Fastest Golang Framework — and Why We Did It

In a world where speed, simplicity, and scalability are non-negotiable, existing Golang frameworks often fall short—either too bloated or too barebones. That’s why we built GoFr, an opinionated yet flexible framework designed to power high-performance microservices at scale, especially in production environments that demand millions of requests per minute.

This talk is a deep dive into the why, what, and how behind GoFr:

• Why we didn’t just use existing frameworks

• What architecture choices and patterns we followed

• How we ensured performance, extensibility, and developer experience
  We’ll walk through real production challenges we solved in Indian-scale systems, share benchmarks, and explore how open-source contributions shaped the framework’s evolution.

If you’ve ever built services in Go or are looking to contribute to real-world FOSS tooling, this talk is for you.

• The motivation and philosophy behind building GoFr from scratch

• Architecture decisions that make GoFr performant, minimal, and extensible

• Real-world production challenges that shaped GoFr’s feature set

• How to contribute to and adopt GoFr in your own backend systems

• Insights into building and maintaining an open-source framework in India’s fast-moving tech ecosystem