Golang UK Conference 2016 Victor Ruiz Building your own log based message queue in Go

As applications become more dataintensive and with the rise of event based architectures, terms like stream processing, ETL and data integration, become normal vocabulary for many organizations. At the center of many of these systems we find Apache Kafka, the state of the art when it comes to storing and moving around large amounts of data. Kafka, together with Zookeeper, forms a large and complex system. But some of its unique properties like strong ordering and constant time read, write derive from its s