Go, Jocko, Kafka (Go Time #31)

Travis Jeffery joined the show to talk about Go, Jocko, Kafka, how Kafka’s storage internals work, and interesting Go projects and news.

Travis Jeffery joined the show to talk about Go, Jocko, Kafka, how Kafka’s storage internals work, and interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

Travis Jeffery – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteErik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHubCarlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInBrian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

JOCKO — a Kafka implemented in Golang
Building a Kafka that doesn’t depend on ZooKeeper
How Kafka’s Storage Internals Work
Kafka protocol guide
A really interesting post by Russ Cox ~> My Go Resolutions for 2017

Ponzu is a powerful and efficient open-source HTTP server framework and CMS. It provides automatic, free, and secure HTTP/2 over TLS (certificates obtained via Let’s Encrypt), a useful CMS and scaffolding to generate content editors, and a fast HTTP API on which to build modern applications.
“SHENZHEN GO” (working title) - Experimental visual Go environment
Ebiten - A simple SNES-style 2D game library in Go
Subgraph OS is a desktop computing and communications platform that is designed to be resistant to network-borne exploit and malware attacks. It is also meant to be familiar and easy to use. Even in alpha, Subgraph OS looks and feels like a modern desktop operating system.
Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go

Rust vs. Go + comments on Hacker News
How to educate me about prejudice in the open-source community
A great discussion in golang-dev this week ~> Standardization around logging and related concerns

Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Brian - goa/gorma
Erik - OpenOCD
Carlisia - oklog - Prometheus for logs
Travis - Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez) + Redis

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!