Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Connecting to Kafka with Go

When we connected to an AMQP broker in the previous sections of this chapter, we used the de facto standard library github.com/streadway/amqp. For connecting to a Kafka broker, there is a little more diversity among the available Go libraries. At the time of writing this book, the most popular Kafka client libraries for Go are as follows:

1. github.com/Shopify/sarama offers full protocol support and is implemented in pure Go. It is licensed under the MIT license. It is actively maintained.
2. github.com/elodina/go_kafka_client is also implemented in pure Go. It offers more features than the Shopify library, but appears to be less actively maintained. It is licensed under the Apache license.
3. github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go ...