kafka-go VS ApacheKafka

Compare kafka-go vs ApacheKafka and see what are their differences.

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kafka-go ApacheKafka
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kafka-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of kafka-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
  • book about golang and kafka
    6 projects | /r/golang | 4 Jun 2023
    There are two main libraries that people use to write clients Confluent Kafka and segment io kafka
  • Klient - a native, statically-compiled, command line client for Kafka
    3 projects | /r/golang | 10 Feb 2023
    Unlike the standard scripts, and many binary clients, it's a native, statically-compiled, binary. It uses segmentio/go-kafka internally, which means CGO can be disabled during compilation.
  • Is Kafka the Key? The Evolution of Highlight's Ingest
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Nov 2022
    Scaling up our producers/consumers proved to be more cost-effective than adding more CPU/brokers to the Kafka cluster. To accomplish this, we used the segmentio/kafka-go client library which provides an excellent abstraction for interacting with the cluster and will handle data compression completely transparently.
  • Go EventSourcing and CQRS with PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB and ElasticSearch 👋✨💫
    16 projects | dev.to | 18 Jul 2022
    PostgeSQL as event store database Kafka as messages broker gRPC Go implementation of gRPC Jaeger open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Prometheus monitoring and alerting Grafana for to compose observability dashboards with everything from Prometheus MongoDB MongoDB database Elasticsearch Elasticsearch client for Go. Echo web framework Kibana Kibana is data visualization dashboard software for Elasticsearch Migrate for migrations
  • Kafkagosaur - First release
    2 projects | /r/Deno | 24 Jan 2022
    I want to announce the first release of a kafkagosaur, a new Kafka client. It's built using WebAssembly and binds to the kafka-go library. The first release includes functionality to read and write Kafka messages and SASL support.
  • Switching from Celery and Python to Go
    5 projects | /r/golang | 29 Dec 2021
    Use the Segment Kafka library, not Sarama, it’s much easier to use https://github.com/segmentio/kafka-go
  • I share my authentication server.
    18 projects | /r/golang | 20 Dec 2021
    Kafaka - kafka-go, Debezium Outbox
  • Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2021
    Segment learned quite some time ago that librdkafka-go has problems like these (and doesn’t support Contexts either), so they wrote a pure Go replacement instead. https://github.com/segmentio/kafka-go
  • Go, Kafka and gRPC clean architecture CQRS microservices with Jaeger tracing 👋🧑‍💻
    14 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2021
    In this article let's try to create closer to real world CQRS microservices with tracing and monitoring using: 🚀 Kafka as messages broker gRPC Go implementation of gRPC PostgreSQL as database Jaeger open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Prometheus monitoring and alerting Grafana for to compose observability dashboards with everything from Prometheus MongoDB Web and API based SMTP testing Redis Type-safe Redis client for Golang swag Swagger for Go Echo web framework
  • confluent-kafka-go or Shopify/sarama
    3 projects | /r/golang | 16 Jul 2021

ApacheKafka

Posts with mentions or reviews of ApacheKafka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kafka-go and ApacheKafka you can also consider the following projects:

sarama - Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama]

dramatiq - A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.

Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client

outbox-inbox-patterns - Repository to support the article "Building a Knowledge Base Service With Neo4j, Kafka, and the Outbox Pattern"

franz-go - franz-go contains a feature complete, pure Go library for interacting with Kafka from 0.8.0 through 3.6+. Producing, consuming, transacting, administrating, etc.

Jenkins - Jenkins automation server

retry-go - Simple golang library for retry mechanism

RabbitMQ - Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins

kafka-rust - Rust client for Apache Kafka

istio - Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.