vikrambombhi / burst

Pub Sub Message Broker

What is burst?

Burst is a pub sub messaging system built in Golang.

How do I use burst?

1. Start burst go run main.go
2. Connect to a topic. This is done by creating a websocket to burst and specifiying the topic in the url for example ws://localhost:8080/foo will connect you to topic foo
3. Send and Receive messages: This is simply done by sending a message down the websocket. All subscribers will recieve the message including the sender.

Config

The number of workers a given topic has can be changed with the environment variable WORKERS_PER_POOL. The default number of workers per topic is 8.

API

/get-topics this is a reserved topic name. And will return all topics that have been created since burst was started

Next steps

For now performance is not a issue. The next steps for development will be:

1. Build a client package so the logic of connecting to topics, sending/receiving message can all be abstracted away
2. Benchmarking and testing
3. Implementing logging for messages and other events.
4. Cleaning up closed connections. (Currently a memory leak)
5. Add the abillity to set ports.