Golang

How to write an NSQ consumer in Go

Recently Reverb began using NSQ as a distributed message queue. After establishing producers in our Rails app, we wrote a simple Go consumer for some of our services to use the new queue.

What the NSQ?

Automated Redshift Setup with Protobufs

Recently Reverb wrote a service (the log router) that parses log lines from S3 and adds them to an event-specific table in Redshift. While tackling this project, we wanted to make sure that when we decided to track and analyze a new event, it was relatively…

Build a Protocol Buffer Powered Tracking Pixel in Go

How to Build a Protocol Buffer Powered Tracking Pixel in Go

At Reverb we’ve been working hard to take ownership of our data. This process is important to us as we grow as an…