Go-transistor is a simple framework for building end-to-end message forwarding server. ..
Go-transistor is simple and quickly applicable to any situation where you want data transferred to another endpoints.
Both go-transistor and Kafka provides topic based message categorization. But go-transistor doesn't provide message queueing and is rather more close to fire-and-forget Pub/Sub pattern. But since go-transistor is a framework, you can customize it to have a queue structure.