[twmb]

I spent quite some time writing github.com/twmb/franz-go due to wanting more from both Sarama and from Segment’s library. Pure Go as well.

I’d recommend evaluating it as an alternative, even to confluent-kafka-go due to comprehensive feature support and (afaict) even higher performance than the aforementioned libraries.

[xerxes901]

Oh hey that looks really interesting. I'll certainly give it a look!

Lesson learned from the Sarama -> librdkafka migration: We actually wrapped Sarama in a home-grown abstraction (to handle some Zendesk-specific concerns). When we made v2 of this wrapper to support confluent-kafka-go, we made sure that no confluent-kafka-go implementation details/types leaked out of the interface. So, in theory, we can change underlying libraries again "easily" (well, with less rework in the apps at least).

[twmb]

Nice! That’s definitely a good practice :).

I’ve tried to make the kgo package easier to use, but I think some libraries suffer from over abstracting the underlying protocol, which ultimately locks them out of some higher efficiency code or some correctness. So, I’ve tried to make the library simple yet not hide all of the details. It’s seemed to have panned out successfully for at least some people. Happy to answer any questions about it, and thanks for taking a look!

[otterley]

Nice!