---
title: "How to Build a Real-Time Notification System with Go and Kafka"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-real-time-notification-system-with-go-and-kafka-xrp4jdwgv
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-real-time-notification-system-with-go-and-kafka/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2023-08-26T00:41:47.497Z
updated: 2023-08-26T00:41:31.622Z
tags: ["github", "golang", "kafka"]
reading_time: 14
upvotes: 128
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# How to Build a Real-Time Notification System with Go and Kafka

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 14 min read · 128 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

In this tutorial, you’ll delve into the mechanics of Kafka and then integrate it with Go to develop a real-time notification system. In order to understand this article fully, you should have prior knowledge of Goroutines, the Gin framework, and containerization tools like Docker.

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