Using confluent-kafka-go on MacOS M1

Hello, TLDR; brew install librdkafka openssl@3 pkg-config export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib/pkgconfig" go test -tags dynamic ./... I’ve been transition from a Linux machine to a MacOS M1 machine at work and when I ran tests for a Golang project, I noticed that the test failed on modules depending on librdkafka. Initially I’ve had problems with Kafka on MacOS M1 on Docker, since I was using an older image version that didn’t have any arm64 build, updating to images to version 7.2.1[1] fixed the issues. ...

October 17, 2022 · 2 min · Denis Nuțiu

Go Pattern: Sorting a slice on multiple keys

Hi 👋 In this article I want to highlight a simple pattern for sorting a slice in Go on multiple keys. Given the following structure, let’s say we want to sort it in ascending order after Version, Generation and Time. type TheStruct struct { Generation int Time int Version int } The way we sort slices in Go is by using the sort interface or one of the sort.Slice functions. To sort the slice after the above criteria we’ll call slice.Sort with the following function. ...

May 12, 2022 · 2 min · Denis Nuțiu