line/armeria

Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

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Armeria

Build a reactive microservice at your pace, not theirs.

Armeria is your go-to microservice framework for any situation. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

It is open-sourced by the creator of Netty and his colleagues at LINE Corporation.

Requirements

Java 8 or later if you are a user.
See the developer guide if you are building Armeria.

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Hall of fame

See the complete list of our contributors.

gateway

grpc

grpc-client

grpc-server

hacktoberfest

http

http2

http-client

http-server

micro-framework

microservices

netty

rpc

rpc-client

rpc-framework

rpc-library

rpc-server

thrift

thrift-client

thrift-server

Project health

Overall

5.8/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

9/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

Maven

com.linecorp.armeria:armeria

Latest release

1.42.0 · Oct 6, 2026

Releases this year

Significant stargazers

(top 24 of 56)

Bruce Mitchener

321 followers · starred Nov 2015

Konrad `ktoso` Malawski

1,674 followers · starred Feb 2018

Pavol Loffay

363 followers · starred Jan 2019

Fedor Korotkov

238 followers · starred Apr 2019

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