Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Polaris
High performance workflow orchestrator for Golang servers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Polaris launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A brief overview: 1. Workflows steps share a running context, with access to data they need require. 2. Steps in the workflow (builders) are chained together based on a topologically sorted built from the predefined input & output. 3. No servers spin up (like Conductor/Cadence) - the orchestrator is low level and meant for simplifying business logic. 4. Before/After listeners for each step. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Orchestra 1.0▲195An open-source robotic process automation system 🚀
2019 · orchestra.b12.io · its alternatives →
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Every data pipeline job I had to tackle required quite a few components to set up: - One tool to ingest data - Another one to transform it - If you wanted to run Python, set up an orchestrator - If you need to check the data, a data quality tool Let alone this being hard to set up and taking time, it is also pretty high-maintenance. I had to do a lot of infra work, and while this being billable hours for me I didn’t enjoy the work at all. For some parts of it, there were nice solutions like dbt, but in the end for an end-to-end workflow, it didn’t work. That’s why I decided to build an…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Workflow orchestrator written in rust. Contribute to RainingComputers/Flowmium development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easy workflow automation for cloud infrastructure
2021 · puppet.com · its alternatives →
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I think like many of you, I've been jumping between many claude code/codex sessions at a time, managing multiple lines of work and worktrees in multiple repos. I wanted a way to easily manage multiple lines of work and reduce the amount of input I need to give, allowing the agents to remove me as a bottleneck from as much of the process as I can. So I built an orchestration tool for AI coding agents: Optio is an open-source orchestration system that turns tickets into merged pull requests using AI coding agents. You point it at your repos, and it handles the full lifecycle: - Intake —…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Check out our new project to add some insight into OOM kill events for Go programs. Source code: https://github.com/parca-dev/oomprof/ Description of how it was put together: https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/08/13/oomprof
2021 · polarsignals.com · its alternatives →
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A BASIC interpreter written in golang. Contribute to skx/gobasic development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ocean Orchestrator ▲139Run AI jobs from your IDE with a one-click workflow
Mar 2026 · oncompute.ai · its alternatives →
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I have been using golang at work and personally for more than 2 years now. A problem i faced when I started and the problem new gophers even today is how to structure the project. Most (if not all) golang tutorials seem to be very simple and do not describe how to structure a large application. Following project is an attempt to Showcase a manageable project layout for services in golang. https://github.com/spy16/droplets This project is far from complete. Would like to hear some feedback from the community before continuing on this.
2018 · its alternatives →
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I can't tell if HN is the right kind of place for this stuff anymore since people are so advanced in their use but I thought it was interesting to leverage my existing Go microservices framework and turn it into the core of what would provide tools for an agent cli or whatever beyond that. Extensibility is key. Thought I'd share and get a conversation going.
2020 · go-micro.dev · its alternatives →
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Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python. - PrefectHQ/prefect
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight engine for durable execution / deterministic workflows I built with Rust, wasmtime and the WASM Component Model. Its main use is running reliable, long-running workflows that can automatically resume after failures. Looking for feedback on the approach and potential use cases!
2025 · obeli.sk · its alternatives →
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Large-scale server monitoring application written in Golang - gmemstr/Platypus
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard
2014 · tyk.io · its alternatives →
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A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity. - zeromicro/go-zero
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'd like to share a project I've been working on for the past few months. It's a distributed workflow engine written entirely in Go. Some highlights: * Tasks are executed in a Docker container * Can run stand-alone or distributed * Highly extensible * Able to enforce limits (CPU/RAM) per task * Web UI Would love the get your feedback on it, and find out if this could be useful.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Distributed Time Synchronization Service. Contribute to rubrikinc/kronos development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Go will take over the world
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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