Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Distributed locking and syncing in Go launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Relic▲84

   A private, synced vault of everything you copy

   Sep 2026 · relic.space · its alternatives →

2. 2
   A clock synchronization library in golang for distributed systems▲26

   Distributed Time Synchronization Service. Contribute to rubrikinc/kronos development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Code Podcast 3: Concurrency – Event Loop & Coroutines▲54

   Concurrency in UIKits, browsers and web servers

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

4. 4LI
   Locklock.io – Lock-as-a-service, REST API for easy distributed locking▲5

   2019 · locklock.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Lockless Ringbuffer Built with Go Generics▲44

   A single publisher, multi subscriber lockless ring buffer build with the new generics in Go 1.18beta.

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6LS
   Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems▲77

   Hi guys, creator of lockable here - the easiest way to think of lockable is as `flock` for when you don’t have a shared file system. You can use it to control concurrent access to resources or to ensure only a single instance of a process runs at any given time. Your processes can acquire, refresh and release locks via simple HTTP requests, so it’s language/framework agnostic. E.g. with `curl`: $ curl https://lockable.dev/api/acquire/my-lock-name { "response": true //or false, if the lock wasn’t available } $ curl…

   2022 · lockable.dev · its alternatives →

7. 7CS
   Cloud storage abstraction package for Go▲9

   2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

8. 8ED
   Event-driven, user-space and highly-scalable TCP/IP stack [pdf]▲29

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9NS
   Nested selective sync comes to Google Drive▲8

   2014 · medium.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Goat, a REST api server in Go▲5

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    BitTorrent Shoot▲20

    Sync easily moves anything, anywhere.

    2015 · resilio.com · its alternatives →

12. 12AB
    Alloy – Boilerplate for building web applications with Go▲7

    2017 · growthmetrics.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Asynq – Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue for Go▲8

    Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go - hibiken/asynq

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    I wrote an OSS message queue for your embedded devices in Go▲9

    2014 · stavros.io · its alternatives →

15. 15
    borgmatic – simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers▲6

    2019 · torsion.org · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Go's concurrency features in Swift 2 (Linux ready)▲14

    Coroutines, structured concurrency and CSP for Swift on macOS and Linux. - Zewo/Venice

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Gravitational Teleport▲4

    Modern SSH server for managing distributed infrastructure

    2016 · goteleport.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Simple Lock-Free Queue in C▲5

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AO
    A one click, auto scaling redis hosting for hackathons in Go▲5

    2015 · getaredis.mbassem.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Mobius3 – Continual Sync to and from S3▲6

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    A simple library for persistent finite-state machines in Go▲10

    A finite-state machine library for the Go programming language - calebwin/go-sm

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22PT
    Peer-to-Peer Direct Connections▲7

    2024 · roberts.pm · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Go Command-streaming lib for distributed systems (3x faster than gRPC)▲12

    I created cmd-stream-go, a high-performance client-server library based on the Command Pattern, where Commands are first-class citizens. Why build around Commands? As serializable objects, they can be sent over the network and persisted. They also provide a clean way to model distributed transactions through composition, and naturally support features like Undo and Redo. These qualities make them a great fit for implementing consistency patterns like Saga in distributed systems. On the performance side, sending a Command involves minimal overhead — only its type and data need to be…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24LF
    Lock-free concurrent maps for Golang▲5

    Package lfmap provides generic concurrent lock-free map implementation, using immutable map and atomic swaps.

    2024 · pkg.go.dev · its alternatives →

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