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Confluent Kafka Golang Client
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book about golang and kafka
There are two main libraries that people use to write clients Confluent Kafka and segment io kafka
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Getting sum type values from a map
As my first "real world" (ish) project in Vlang, I'm trying to copy https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, which is a Go wrapper for Kafka C client library, https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
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Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off
You are right, but in practice that's not what happens. Companies do not rely on open source libraries, the developers working for such companies do.
I can give you a realistic example. If you want to use Kafka and Go, your probably only option is to use https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go. Its LICENSE explicitly says "no warranty". Now, what if I find a bug in the library? Only two realistic solutions from my side:
1. I submit the issue and hope for the maintainers to fix it
2. I dig deeper and try to fix the issue. I submit the PR
None of the above scenarios are guaranteed to have a happy ending. The issue could be ignored, or piled up among thousand of other (maybe higher prio) issues. My solution may not be optimal and could be rejected (or if it's optimal, nobody is taking a look at it, and it could remain open for weeks/months).
> If that is a problem for you, negotiate a different contract up front - with the maintainer or someone else willing to do the work. That probably means paying them.
In the real world that would mean that I go to my manager and asks them to pay money to the maintainers of confluent-kafka-go to fix the issue I found. I don't think my manager would approve that, but let's imagine he does. The guys at confluent-kafka-go may not want money to fix the issue. These guys have probably already jobs that pay them well, and they work on the library at will.
Note: I'm talking about confluent-kafka-go, which I know is behind the Confluent software company. But I could as well be talking about libraries maintained by individuals like https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
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What are Golang competitors in 2022 when it comes to one-file binary deployment?
it can be completely statically linked binaries. example: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/blob/db57ef6235/kafka/librdkafka_vendor/README.md
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Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
If you find the kafka input slow, try kafka_franz. It might be a bit faster, since it’s based on https://github.com/twmb/franz-go. The kafka one is based on https://github.com/Shopify/sarama. You can also write a custom input based on https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, but this library relies on CGo, which can be annoying.
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Sharing event schema ( type ) between producer and a consumer
Last time I checked Confluent does not have a Schema Registry for Go, only for Java, so instead of that I rely on using the guidelines defined for the serialized data, specifically I've used gPRC+Protobuf for doing this, together with buf to detect breaking changes; buf has their own schema registry perhaps that could be something you could explore as well.
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Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
So, in the interests of full transparency - we at Zendesk are actually running a fork of confluent-kafka-go, which I forked to add, amongst other things, context support: https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go/pull/626
This bug actually happened because I mis-merged upstream into our fork and missed an important call to rd_kafka_poll_set_consumer: https://github.com/zendesk/confluent-kafka-go/commit/6e2d889...
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Create page view analytics system using Kafka, Go, Postgres & GraphQL in 5 steps
Setup Kafka Producer using confluent-kakfka-go
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Is segmentio/kafka-go production ready ?
I'd suggest https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go we switched from sarama-cluster with minimal work and it works fine. And we process approx 1.2M messages per hour.
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Go and Kafka
In my company we use this https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go,
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Any golang library to batch process a queue ?
I’ve used https://www.benthos.dev/ and it’s really easy and well implemented. The author is also very responsive
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Show HN: Arroyo – Write SQL on streaming data
Looks cool. What is the difference between this tools and benthos (https://www.benthos.dev/)?
- Benthos: Open-source stream processing tool
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book about golang and kafka
You might want to gradually replace that one with https://github.com/twmb/franz-go because Shopify is looking to find a new owner for Sarama and, until or if they do, it seems to be falling behind with maintenance: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2461 For example, they still haven’t addressed this breaking change https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2358. franz-go has worked well so far in Benthos https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos/tree/main/internal/impl/kafka and it will likely end up as the only implementation once the Sarama-based one will be deprecated
- Show HN: Open-source Auth0 alternative Ory Kratos v0.13 released – nearing v1.0
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Go in depth youtube channels?
I upload a mix of code reviews and live streams on https://www.youtube.com/@Jeffail, mostly building https://www.benthos.dev out in the open so the content ranges from beginner friendly stuff to more advanced things like stream processing, parser combinators, etc.
What are some alternatives?
sarama - Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama]
appsmith - Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
kafka-go - Kafka library in Go
watermill - Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go.
Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.
goka - Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go.
salsa - A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation. Inspired by adapton, glimmer, and rustc's query system.
confluent-kafka-python - Confluent's Kafka Python Client
grpcui - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman
NATS - Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.
grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers