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.

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Featuring:

• Travis Jeffery – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

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!