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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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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.
You should give confluent-kafka-go a try. It has a sync producer and is super fast. Have been using from quite a few years now.
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Go and Kafka
In my company we use this https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go,
NATS
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High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system
(note that NATS Streaming is a now deprecated predecessor to NATS JetStream)
Pull does have advantages over push (e.g. one-to-one flow control since the transfer of the messages is initiated by the client (pull requests)), and they are basically functionally equivalent (only thing push can do that pull can not is send a copy of all the message to all the subscribers, should you ever need it). They both exists because historically push came first and then pull later).
As a developper using NATS JetStream you should really not have to worry about push or pull, you should just care whether you want to consume the messages via call back or via an iterator or via fetching batches, after that whether pull or push is being used underneath the covers is irrelevant to you.
And this is exactly how it is in the new JetStream API (https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go/tree/main/jetstream#readm...) you don't have to worry about push/pull anymore and you can consume in any of the 3 ways described above (callback, iterator, fetch batch) it's all a lot simpler and easier to use.
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What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
nats: Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system
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Distributed communication patterns with NATS
Install the nats.go package
- Redis vs. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
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Distributed messaging with NATS
Now that our NATS server is running, we'll be using Go and Node.js clients to connect to it for simple demonstration. Not familiar with Go or Node? Don't worry NATS has clients available in over 40 languages!
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- Modern Communication: Sockets
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Subscription management in pub/sub system
You could start by looking/reading how it is implemented in production ala https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go
What are some alternatives?
sarama - Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama]
kafka-go - Kafka library in Go
nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.
EventBus - [Go] Lightweight eventbus with async compatibility for Go
goka - Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go.
Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
go-nsq - The official Go package for NSQ
dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus
emitter - Emits events in Go way, with wildcard, predicates, cancellation possibilities and many other good wins
confluent-kafka-python - Confluent's Kafka Python Client