ShikaLabs provides a private toolkit for building and managing distributed systems, combining a high‑performance C/C++23 core with Go‑based command‑line utilities and C interop for networking and web services. NET Core HTTP and WebSocket functionality to native code, enabling streamlined, autonomous infrastructure operations.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Managing distributed systems often requires coordinating multiple languages, handling TLS certificate rotation, and integrating networking services across heterogeneous environments, which can be time‑consuming and error‑prone.
Solution
ShikaLabs offers a private toolkit that unifies high‑performance C/C++23 core components with Go command‑line utilities and C# interop layers to simplify infrastructure automation. The toolkit provides a MISRA‑compliant C/C++ foundation for low‑level operations, a C‑ABI bridge (shikalink) that exposes ASP.NET Core HTTP and WebSocket capabilities to native code, and a Go‑based CLI (shikacloud) that automates VPS certificate management via Cloudflare’s ACME API. By leveraging systemd units and native timers, the solution enables fully autonomous TLS/SSL renewal without manual intervention. The integrated logging (shikalog) and terminal management (shikaterm) modules support OpenTelemetry‑compatible observability for internal tooling.
Target Audience
Primary users are infrastructure engineers, DevOps teams, and developers building high‑performance distributed systems who need integrated, language‑agnostic tooling for automation and networking.
Features
- C/C++23 core with MISRA‑compliant primitives for reliable cross‑language interoperability
- shikalink C‑ABI bridge that maps ASP.NET Core HTTP and WebSocket services to native code
- shikacloud Go CLI automating ACME certificate issuance and renewal through Cloudflare API
- Built‑in systemd unit and timer generation for scheduled, hands‑free TLS/SSL management
- shikalog module providing OpenTelemetry‑compatible logging for distributed applications
- shikaterm module handling ANSI terminal state management for command‑line tools