The Go Kafka Client https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client is a
wrapper around Sarama https://github.com/Shopify/sarama that implements
high level consumer functionality (including automatic load balancing and
fail-over when consumer clients fail) and other features for producing and
consuming with Kafka through Sarama.

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Dieterly, Deklan <deklan.diete...@hp.com>
wrote:

> I’m looking at implementing Kafka consumers in Go. From the Kafka wiki, I
> see that there are two clients available.
>
> 1. https://github.com/Shopify/sarama
> 2. https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client
>
> Of the two which is more fully featured? Specifically, I’m looking for
> automatic load balancing and fail-over when consumer clients fail. I was
> disappointed with the Python client library (
> https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python) that did not have this
> functionality built into it and I want to make sure that I don’t make
> another choice were I’ll be disappointed. Are there any reasons to prefer
> one of the listed Go clients over the other? Are there any gotchas with
> either of the two client libraries?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> From the wiki at
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-Go%28AKAgolang%29
> Go (AKA golang)
>
> Pure Go implementation with full protocol support. Consumer and Producer
> implementations included, GZIP and Snappy compression supported.
>
> Maintainer: Shopify<http://shopify.com>
> License: MIT
>
> https://github.com/Shopify/sarama
>
> Another Pure Go implementation built to work as like the "Consumer Group"
> High Level Consumer with more features including plug-able partition
> ownership and work fan out.
>
> Maintainer: Big Data Open Source Security<
> https://www.linkedin.com/company/big-data-open-source-security-llc>
> License: Apache v2.0
>
> https://github.com/stealthly/go_kafka_client
>
>
> Regards.
> --
> Deklan Dieterly
> Hewlett-Packard Company
> Sr. Systems Software Engineer
> HP Cloud
>
>

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