diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nsq/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nsq/default.nix
index 19352984712a..dd948b8b1c48 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/nsq/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nsq/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,26 @@
-{ buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-buildGoPackage rec {
+buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "nsq";
-  version = "0.3.5";
-  rev = "v${version}";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/bitly/nsq";
+  version = "1.2.1";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    inherit rev;
-    owner = "bitly";
+    owner = "nsqio";
     repo = "nsq";
-    sha256 = "1r7jgplzn6bgwhd4vn8045n6cmm4iqbzssbjgj7j1c28zbficy2f";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0ajqjwfn06zsmz21z9mkl4cblarypaf20228pqcd1293zl6y3ry8";
   };
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  vendorSha256 = "11sx96zshaciqrm8rqmhz1sf6nd4lczqwiha031xyyifvmpp2hsa";
+
+  excludedPackages = [ "bench" ];
+
+  ldflags = [ "-s" "-w" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://nsq.io/";
+    description = "A realtime distributed messaging platform";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/nsqio/nsq/raw/v${version}/ChangeLog.md";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nsq/deps.nix b/pkgs/servers/nsq/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 751a18ca92d7..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/nsq/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/mreiferson/go-snappystream";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mreiferson/go-snappystream";
-      rev = "028eae7ab5c4c9e2d1cb4c4ca1e53259bbe7e504";
-      sha256 = "0jdd5whp74nvg35d9hzydsi3shnb1vrnd7shi9qz4wxap7gcrid6";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/bitly/go-nsq";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/bitly/go-nsq";
-      rev = "22a8bd48c443ec23bb559675b6df8284bbbdab29";
-      sha256 = "06hrkwk84w8rshkanvfgmgbiml7n06ybv192dvibhwgk2wz2dl46";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/bitly/go-simplejson";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/bitly/go-simplejson";
-      rev = "18db6e68d8fd9cbf2e8ebe4c81a78b96fd9bf05a";
-      sha256 = "0lj9cxyncchlw6p35j0yym5q5waiz0giw6ri41qdwm8y3dghwwiy";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/blang/semver";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/blang/semver";
-      rev = "9bf7bff48b0388cb75991e58c6df7d13e982f1f2";
-      sha256 = "11sinbf942dpyc9wdpidkhmqn438cfp5n8x3xqnmq9aszkld9hy7";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/bmizerany/perks";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/bmizerany/perks";
-      rev = "6cb9d9d729303ee2628580d9aec5db968da3a607";
-      sha256 = "0cdh84hmn21is6hvv6dy9qjdcg9w3l2k8avlk0881a8cqm09s90j";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/BurntSushi/toml";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml";
-      rev = "056c9bc7be7190eaa7715723883caffa5f8fa3e4";
-      sha256 = "0gkgkw04ndr5y7hrdy0r4v2drs5srwfcw2bs1gyas066hwl84xyw";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/bitly/go-hostpool";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/bitly/go-hostpool";
-      rev = "d0e59c22a56e8dadfed24f74f452cea5a52722d2";
-      sha256 = "14ph12krn5zlg00vh9g6g08lkfjxnpw46nzadrfb718yl1hgyk3g";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/bitly/timer_metrics";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/bitly/timer_metrics";
-      rev = "afad1794bb13e2a094720aeb27c088aa64564895";
-      sha256 = "1b717vkwj63qb5kan4b92kx4rg6253l5mdb3lxpxrspy56a6rl0c";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/mreiferson/go-options";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mreiferson/go-options";
-      rev = "7c174072188d0cfbe6f01bb457626abb22bdff52";
-      sha256 = "0ksyi2cb4k6r2fxamljg42qbz5hdcb9kv5i7y6cx4ajjy0xznwgm";
-    };
-  }
-]