📡 Kafka Golang Example

A simple Go project that demonstrates basic work with Apache Kafka: the producer sends messages, and the consumer reads them.

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Technologies used

• Language: Go 1.21+
• Message Broker: Apache Kafka
• Zookeeper (for Kafka)
• Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose
• Lib: github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go

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Launch in Docker

Download repository using command:

git clone https://github.com/spookysploit/kafka-golang.git

Open the repository:

cd ./kafka-golang

Launch command:

docker compose up --build

After the containers are launched, the web interface will also be available at:
http://localhost:9020/

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Launching producer and consumer

Download all the dependencies:

go mod tidy

Producer working example (sending messages):

go run ./cmd/producer/main.go

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Consumer working example (reading messages):

go run ./cmd/consumer/main.go