netlog

NetLog

A lightweight, HTTP-centric, log-based (Kafka-style) message queue.

Alpha software

This is still early software and potentially buggy. To peek at the internals start with BigLog.

Roadmap

• low-level log management
• HTTP transport
• scanner based pub/sub
• custom data retention policy
• persistent scanners
• batching
• compression
• good test coverage
• proper documentation
• streaming based pub/sub
• async replication
• kinesis-compatible transport
• gRPC transport

Non-goals

• Match Kafka's performance.
• Distributed system.

Getting started

While posting and fetching single messages is very inefficient, it's the simplest way to get started using nothing but curl commands.

# compile server
go get github.com/ninibe/netlog/cmd/netlog

# run server
bin/netlog

# create new topic
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/demo

# post messages
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/demo/payload --data-binary "message number one"
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/demo/payload --data-binary "message number two"
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/demo/payload --data-binary "message number three"

# check topic info
curl localhost:7200/demo

# create scanner
curl -XPOST "localhost:7200/demo/scanner?from=0"

export SC="...UUID RETURNED..."

# start scanning...
curl -XGET "localhost:7200/demo/scan?id=$SC"
x times ...

# wait 5 seconds for new messages
curl -XGET "localhost:7200/demo/scan?id=$SC&wait=5s"

# wait 5 minutes
curl -XGET "localhost:7200/demo/scan?id=$SC&wait=5m"

# post more messages in another window
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/demo/payload --data-binary "message number four"
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/demo/payload --data-binary "message number five"

# new scanner since 1 minute ago
curl -XPOST "localhost:7200/demo/scanner?from=1m"

One-line-ish pub/sub

# create new topic
curl -XPOST localhost:7200/pubsubdemo

# get scanner ID with jq
export SCANNER=$(curl -s -XPOST "localhost:7200/pubsubdemo/scanner?from=0&persist=true" | jq -r .id)

# subscribe to the topic
while true; do; curl "localhost:7200/pubsubdemo/scan?id=$SCANNER&wait=1h" && echo; done

# IN ANOTHER WINDOW

# publish on the topic
while true; do; read data; curl localhost:7200/pubsubdemo/payload --data-binary $data; done
# write something and hit enter

Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome, check the contributing guidelines. To ask any questions you can write to the netlog-dev mailing list.