README.md

kafka-pubsub

This is a coding challenge for goraft. You can find the challenge specification in challenge.md.

This repository contains two executables, cmd/publisher/publisher.go, cmd/subscriber/subscriber.go that use a few shared functions in the top level directory. These executables are built and put into Docker containers. You can find their associated Dockerfiles in the top level directory.

The program can be built and reviewed by simply running docker-compose up in the top level directory with the correct permissions. Here is some example truncated output:

publisher     | Connected to Kafka leader.
subscriber    | Connected to Kafka leader.
subscriber    | New message:
subscriber    |   Epoch in seconds: 1608129684
subscriber    |   Celsius reading: 33.35?C
subscriber    | New message:
subscriber    |   Epoch in seconds: 1608129685
subscriber    |   Celsius reading: 40.18?C
subscriber    | New message:
subscriber    |   Epoch in seconds: 1608129686
subscriber    |   Celsius reading: -7.93?C

Please note that the full logs for the program can be reviewed by using docker logs publisher or docker logs subscriber. This will fix the ° symbol not being found.

Connected to Kafka leader.
New message:
  Epoch in seconds: 1608129684
  Celsius reading: 33.35°C
New message:
  Epoch in seconds: 1608129685
  Celsius reading: 40.18°C

Improvements

• Assign the KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME environment variable to something that will scale up with containers, if it doesn't already.
• Make the constants in util.go configurable for the executables on start up.