PACE Bricks

Opinionated microservice kit to help developers to build microservices with go.

Caution

Project Status: Deprecated/Archived

As of January 2026, this project has reached its end-of-life and is no longer being actively developed. We are unable to provide support, security updates, or bug fixes. Developers looking for similar functionality are encouraged to seek actively maintained alternatives.

Opinions

A pace/bricks microservice is:

• built as a docker container
• deployed into a kubernetes cluster
  • support for the termination log
• configured using environment variables (TWELVE-FACTOR APP)
• monitored using prometheus
• reports errors to sentry
• samples traces to sentry
• logs to stdout using json deployed kubernetes otherwise human readable
• offers health endpoints
• built-in redaction of JWTs and card schemes
• connects to backend services
  • postgres (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • redis (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • queue via redis (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • http (logging, metrics, tracing, retries)
  • s3 via http (logging, metrics, tracing, health)
  • couchdb via http (logging, metrics, tracing, retries, health)
  • grpc (logging, metrics, tracing, retries)
• provides two commands control and daemon
• provides a RESTful API
  • code is generated from the OpenAPIv3 spec
  • authenticated via OAuth2
  • encoded using json:api
  • that supports logging, tracing and metrics
• optionally provides a GRPC API
  • code is generated from the protoc spec
  • that supports logging, tracing and metrics

Install

go get github.com/pace/bricks/cmd/pb

Usage

pb -h

Contributing

Read our contributors guide.

Requirements

• A working go installation
• A working git installation

Testing

• Use make test to test without dependencies
• Use docker-compose run testserver make integration to test with dependencies
• Use make testserver to start a testserver that will be started with dependencies. In order to update the server one need to docker-compose restart testserver

Environment variables for the pb command

Variable	Description
PACE_BRICKS_EDITOR	The path to the editor that should be used for opening a project. Defaults to $EDITOR.
PACE_BRICKS_PATH	The path where new project should be created. Defaults to $HOME/PACE.