Playground - Go Kafka consumer

This is a playground for a kafka client in Go. It is not intended to be used in production, it's simply a proof of concept. It's one of several consumers we're testing to see which one is the best fit for our needs in the context of the Online Delivery Stack.

See also the same tests in Rust in kafka-rust-consumer.

Structure

The project is structured as follows:

• main.go - The main file of the project to be executed when starting this app
• consumer/ - The package containing the consumer logic
• producer/ - The package containing the producer logic - It simply writes back the same message to another topic
• api/ - A test API that simply takes the messages and redirects it as it is to a echo API

Sample Messages

The messages were JSON payload generated using JSON Generator and have this structure:

[
  '{{repeat(5, 7)}}',
  {
    _id: '{{objectId()}}',
    crmId: '{{guid()}}',
    isActive: '{{bool()}}',
    age: '{{integer(20, 80)}}',
    name: '{{firstName()}} {{surname()}}',
    gender: '{{gender()}}',
    company: '{{company().toUpperCase()}}',
    email: '{{email()}}'
  }
]

Sample Output

{
	"_id": "63c184fc0b003b5184665453",
	"crmId": "81ee5d9b-a92b-4a47-a3f8-c1cb918d2fd9",
	"isActive": true,
	"age": 39,
	"name": "Wilcox Anthony",
	"gender": "male",
	"company": "NEPTIDE",
	"email": "wilcoxanthony@neptide.com"
}

Test Echo API

As test API I've used https://echo.zuplo.io, which is a dummy web server that just re-echos back what it got.

An alternative would have been the much more complex Postman ECHO API, a REST API service that allows you to test your REST clients and make sample API calls with any methods and configuration. It just returns back the request as a response.

Note

The Kafka local setup is not included in this project, it's just a copy of this repo