Using Kafka with Go: A Tech Assessment — DigIO

Song X.
DigIO Australia
Published in
6 min readJul 21, 2022

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Background

There’s an increasing demand for Kafka across the Mantel Group brands in client projects. Java, Kotlin, and Scala are the default languages for writing applications that interact with Kafka since it is a JVM-centric ecosystem.

Continuing the trend from last year, the programming language, Go, has been added to DigIO’s tech radar. At the…

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Song X.
DigIO Australia

Software engineer and tech enthusiast. Consulting at DigIO in Melbourne. A big fan of Go. Enjoy reading, cycling and board-gaming.