Category Archives: messaging

Kafka Go client: No Producer error during connection ?

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Abhishek

Although its rare, but there are times when you actually want to see errors in your code – more importantly, at the right time ! Kafka Go Producer behaviour You need to be mindful of this while using the Kafka … Continue reading →

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Kafka Go client quick start

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Abhishek

Here is a Docker based example for Kafka using Go client Overview Simple producer and consumer apps Confluent Go client for Kafka its based on librdkafka (Kafka C client) client setup part is taken care of with a pre-built Docker image – … Continue reading →

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NATS & Kafka: random notes

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Abhishek

This is not NATS vs Kafka by any means – just jotting down some info. NATS recently joined CNCF (which host projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus etc. – look at the dominance of Golang here!) and that’s when it caught my attention … Continue reading →

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NATS – quick start with Docker

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Abhishek

Here is a hello-world example (on Github) for getting started with natsio – a distributed messaging server written in Go It consists of the following components which are managed via Docker Compose NATS server (of course) a Java producer/publisher a Go consumer/subscriber … Continue reading →

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