go-kafka-producer

go run main.go -topic topic_name -message "some cool message"

Setting up OS

We are using confluentic official go kafka package, so this package uses kafka librdkafka (C client) internally and because of that you will need to install some deps on your OS

For ubuntu users

sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config git

Setting up kafka

docker-compose up -d

kafdrop will run on port 29000 and kafka server will run on 9092