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go-kit/kit vs openfaas/faas

go-kit/kit shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, kit shows healthier maintenance signals than faas. kit rates Healthy overall while faas rates Mixed. kit last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors, while faas last saw a commit 2 months ago with 10+ active contributors. kit is MIT-licensed while faas is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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go-kit/kit

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
  • 26+ active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

openfaas/faas

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit 5w ago
  • 10 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

kitfaas
Stars27,42626,156
Last commit1y ago2mo ago
LicenseMITOther
Open issues5831
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage4%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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