Top 4 Go kafka-client Projects

sarama

1 10,975 9.2 Go

Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. (by IBM)

Project mention: Shopify/sarama is now IBM/sarama | /r/golang | 2023-07-11

kafka-go

13 7,104 7.3 Go

Kafka library in Go

Project mention: book about golang and kafka | /r/golang | 2023-06-04

There are two main libraries that people use to write clients Confluent Kafka and segment io kafka

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Confluent Kafka Golang Client

12 4,415 8.1 Go

Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client

Project mention: book about golang and kafka | /r/golang | 2023-06-04

There are two main libraries that people use to write clients Confluent Kafka and segment io kafka

franz-go

16 1,469 9.1 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.

Project mention: Ingesting Data into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka and Go | dev.to | 2023-07-13

Thankfully, Kafka and OpenSearch provide client libraries for a variety of programming languages which make it possible to write your own integration layer. This is exactly what's covered in this blog! We will make use of a custom Go application to ingest data using Go clients for Kafka and OpenSearch.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).