Confluent Kafka Go: Measuring Serialization Performance

This code measures the performance of the confluent kafka go library when serializing using protobuf and the schema registry, as showcased here.

Run

Install docker and run the experiment with:

./run.sh 2>&1 | tee results.log

Results

On my machine, I get:

Test	Time to serialize 1 million messages
Protobuf+schema registry	1.603282821s
Pure protobuf (baseline)	99.182533ms

For a complete log on my machine, see results.log.