Kafka With Go

A Kafka implementation using Go, the kafka-go package, and the example provided in the kafka-go package.

Preparation

• Install Docker desktop
• Install Apache Kafka

To start/stop

% docker-compose up/down

Then use docker-desktop to inspect or terminal log to see a uuid is produced every few seconds.

Go

The Get started with Go explains how to bootstrap a simple project and dependency tracking.

Docker-compose

Configuring Kafka networking is explained in detail here Kafka connectivity when using kafka-go.

References

• Go
• kafka-go
• Get started with Go
• Kafka connectivity
• kafka-docker