Sarama is an MIT-licensed Go client library for Apache Kafka 0.8 (and later).

• API documentation and example are available via godoc at https://godoc.org/github.com/Shopify/sarama.
• Mocks for testing are available in the mocks subpackage.
• The examples directory contains more elaborate example applications.
• The tools directory contains command line tools that can be useful for testing, diagnostics, and instrumentation.
• There is a google group for Kafka client users and authors at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kafka-clients

Sarama provides a "2 releases + 2 months" compatibility guarantee: we support the two latest releases of Kafka and Go, and we provide a two month grace period for older releases. This means we currently officially support Go 1.3 and 1.4, and Kafka 0.8.1 and 0.8.2.

Sarama follows semantic versioning and provides API stability via the gopkg.in service. You can import a version with a guaranteed stable API via https://gopkg.in/Shopify/sarama.v1. A changelog is available here.

• Sarama wiki to get started hacking on sarama itself.
• Kafka Project Home
• Kafka Protocol Specification