GO Kafka Example

This is example repository how to use kafka in golang, with sarama, goavro, and gogen avro

• plain : example publish and consume using string
• avro : example publish and consume using Avro data. to generate avro schame -> struct, please go folder avro/schema and run following command

 gogen-avro . test.avsc

Run App

plain

will send/publish 10 message

• producer : please go folder cmd/plain/producer and run command go run main.go
• consumer : please go folder cmd/plain/consumer and run command go run main.go

avro

will send/publish avro data (name, age)

• producer : please go folder cmd/avro/producer and run command go run main.go
• consumer : please go folder cmd/avro/consumer and run command go run main.go

Install Kafka (OSX Homebrew)

• brew install kafka (will install java 1.8, zookeeper, and kafka)

Run zookeeper and kafka

• zookeeper-server-start /usr/local/etc/kafka/zookeeper.properties
• kafka-server-start /usr/local/etc/kafka/server.properties

Run zookeeper and kafka as services (daemon)

• brew services start zookeeper
• brew services start kafka

That's it. If you want to stop Kafka, just run the brew services commands in reverse:

• brew services stop kafka
• brew services stop zookeeper