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your NATS connection deserves a name: Go edition

An example on how to assign a name to a NATS.io connection in Go.

Get it running

1. Start the NATS docker container:

$ docker run --rm \
    --publish 4222:4222 \
    --publish 8222:8222 \
    --name ycdan-nats \
    --detach \
    nats:2.3.4

1. Compile the example program:

$ go build -o your-connection-deserves-a-name

1. Start the example program:

$ ./your-connection-deserves-a-name

You should see something like

2021/08/07 14:17:17 Connecting to NATS on nats://127.0.0.1:4222
2021/08/07 14:17:17 Connecting to NATS on nats://127.0.0.1:4222 ... Successful
2021/08/07 14:17:17
2021/08/07 14:17:17 Keeping the connection open ...
2021/08/07 14:17:17 You can connect to the NATS monitoring endpoint: http://127.0.0.1:8222/connz
2021/08/07 14:17:17 Hit CTRL + C or cancel the process to stop.
2021/08/07 14:17:17

1. Visit the NATS monitoring endpoint at http://127.0.0.1:8222/connz and confirm the connection name.

Don't know what this is all about?

Read the original blog post your database connection deserves a name @ andygrunwald.com.

Additionally, you can check out the projects README.