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 ## License
 
 The Kratos framework is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](./LICENSE).
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+## Acknowledgments
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+The following project had particular influence on kratos's design.
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+- [go-kit/kit](https://github.com/go-kit/kit) is a programming toolkit for building microservices in go.
+- [asim/go-micro](https://github.com/asim/go-micro) a distributed systems development framework.
+- [google/go-cloud](https://github.com/google/go-cloud) is go cloud development kit.
+- [tal-tech/go-zero](https://github.com/tal-tech/go-zero) is a web and rpc framework with lots of builtin engineering practices.
+- [beego/beego](https://github.com/beego/beego) is a web framework including RESTful APIs, web apps and backend services.