Adventures in Micro Services with Kite and Go

Installation 

So first off I needed to install the Go binaries (for windows 8 x64 for me). Next on my shopping list was an IDE (probably not needed but I thought I would check out liteide) and to test the installation of Go with a Hello World.

Hello World - Go

Next to install Kite. For this I followed the instructions from the Kite site and used the 'go get <package>' command.  First of all I had to set the GoPath which sets the local repo for external installs.  Once set it was time to use the go get command to pull kite from GitHub.  For this to pull from GitHub I needed the Git binaries installed and on the path.  I then tried to run the go get command and found another error, this time I needed mercurial.

Once I had mercurial installed I then ran into some build errors (logger.go).  It all seemed to stem from the Kite logger that was intercepting SIG *nix calls and logging them.  As I was running on Windows, the syscall library of Go doesn't have the matching signals so I had to go into the logger code and comment out the lines referencing the SIG constant (SIGUSR2) and the relevant imports.  There are a few posts mentioning this inconsistency in Go but I was over that hurdle and into the Kite Hello World.

I copied the code from the Kite site and plugged it in.

First Kite

All compiled nicely and so I hit run to see if my first kite would serve.  Hitting run the thing popped into life and instantly started serving (and annoying windows firewall).  Next I needed the other kite that called this Kite with a value and then listened for the return.

Second Kite

Once I had compiled the second Kite I set the first one running and then contacted it via the second one and voila I have my answer!

Success