Real-Time Event Streaming with Kafka and Go
How to build a low-latency ingestion pipeline that handles billions of events per hour.
By TrackRaptor DevInfrastructure Lead
READ: 16 min read
When you operate at scale, traditional REST APIs for tracking become a bottleneck. Synchronous requests slow down the user experience. Kafka allows for decoupled, asynchronous processing where events are buffered and processed in parallel.
The Go Advantage
Using Golang for ingestion microservices provides extreme performance with very low memory overhead. Its goroutines are perfect for handling thousands of concurrent tracking pings without breaking a sweat.