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 * [Troubleshooting](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/troubleshooting-consumers.html)
 * [Advanced Topics](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/advanced-consumers.html)
 
+As a starting point, you can check out the [examples](./examples) directory.
+
 ## Contributing
 
 The vmware-go-kcl-v2 project team welcomes contributions from the community. Before you start working with vmware-go-kcl-v2, please
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+# Usage Examples
+This directory provides some basic examples of using the `vmware-go-kcl-v2`
+package. When in doubt, you should always defer to the upstream AWS KCL
+documentation, however these examples should get you started in the right
+direction.
+
+## Basic Example
+The [basic] example is a direct translation of the offical
+[sample_kclpy_app.py] example. The example takes a single positional
+argument representing the path to a JSON configuration file. An
+[example configuration] file is also included.
+
+[basic]: ./basic
+[example configuration]: ./basic/sample.json
+[sample_kclpy_app.py]: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-python/blob/master/samples/sample_kclpy_app.py
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"math/big"
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	kcl_config "github.com/vmware/vmware-go-kcl-v2/clientlibrary/config"
+	kcl_interfaces "github.com/vmware/vmware-go-kcl-v2/clientlibrary/interfaces"
+	kcl_worker "github.com/vmware/vmware-go-kcl-v2/clientlibrary/worker"
+)
+
+type SampleConfig struct {
+	Stream                  string `json:"stream"`
+	Application             string `json:"application"`
+	Region                  string `json:"region"`
+	WorkerID                string `json:"worker_id"`
+	CheckpointInterval      int    `json:"checkpoint_interval"`
+	CheckpointRetries       int    `json:"checkpoint_retries"`
+	CheckpointRetryInterval int    `json:"checkpoint_retry_interval"`
+}
+
+type RecordProcessor struct {
+	CheckpointInterval      time.Duration
+	CheckpointRetryInterval time.Duration
+	CheckpointRetries       int
+	LastCheckpoint          time.Time
+	LargestSequenceNumber   *big.Int
+}
+
+// Called for each record that is pass to ProcessRecords
+func (p *RecordProcessor) processRecord(data []byte, partitionKey string, sequenceNumber *big.Int) {
+	// Insert your processing logic here
+	logrus.Infof(
+		"Record (Partition Key: %v, Sequence Number: %d, Data Size: %v)",
+		partitionKey,
+		sequenceNumber,
+		len(data),
+	)
+}
+
+// Mostly useless, but copied from official AWS KCL Python example
+func (p *RecordProcessor) shouldUpdateSequence(sequenceNumber *big.Int) bool {
+	return sequenceNumber.Cmp(p.LargestSequenceNumber) > 0
+}
+
+// Checkpoints with retries on retryable exceptions
+func (p *RecordProcessor) checkpoint(checkpointer kcl_interfaces.IRecordProcessorCheckpointer, sequenceNumber *big.Int) {
+	// Convert the integer sequence number back to an AWS string
+	seq := aws.String(fmt.Sprintf("%d", sequenceNumber))
+
+	// Try to checkpoint
+	for n := 0; n < p.CheckpointRetries; n++ {
+		// NOTE: I don't know how to distinguish between retryable and non-retryable errors here
+		err := checkpointer.Checkpoint(seq)
+		if err != nil {
+			logrus.Warnf("error while checkpointing: %v", err)
+			time.Sleep(p.CheckpointRetryInterval)
+			continue
+		} else {
+			// Checkpoint successful, so we are done
+			p.LastCheckpoint = time.Now()
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	// We failed over all retries
+	logrus.Warnf("all checkpoint retries failed")
+}
+
+// IRecordProcessor implementation of ProcessRecords. Called for all incoming
+// batches of records from Kinesis by the KCL
+func (p *RecordProcessor) ProcessRecords(input *kcl_interfaces.ProcessRecordsInput) {
+	for _, record := range input.Records {
+		// Parse the sequence number to an integer
+		seq := big.NewInt(0)
+		seq, ok := seq.SetString(*record.SequenceNumber, 10)
+		if !ok || seq == nil {
+			logrus.Infof(
+				"error: faield to parse sequence number to int: %v",
+				*record.SequenceNumber,
+			)
+		}
+
+		// Process the record
+		p.processRecord(record.Data, *record.PartitionKey, seq)
+
+		if p.shouldUpdateSequence(seq) {
+			p.LargestSequenceNumber = seq
+		}
+	}
+
+	if time.Since(p.LastCheckpoint) >= p.CheckpointInterval {
+		p.checkpoint(input.Checkpointer, p.LargestSequenceNumber)
+	}
+}
+
+func (p *RecordProcessor) Initialize(input *kcl_interfaces.InitializationInput) {
+	p.LargestSequenceNumber = big.NewInt(0)
+	p.LastCheckpoint = time.Now()
+}
+
+func (p *RecordProcessor) Shutdown(input *kcl_interfaces.ShutdownInput) {
+	if input.ShutdownReason != kcl_interfaces.TERMINATE {
+		return
+	} else if err := input.Checkpointer.Checkpoint(nil); err != nil {
+		logrus.Errorf("shutdown checkpoint failed: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A simple processor factory which wraps a function in the
+// appropriate KCL interface
+type RecordProcessorFactory func() kcl_interfaces.IRecordProcessor
+
+func (factory RecordProcessorFactory) CreateProcessor() kcl_interfaces.IRecordProcessor {
+	return factory()
+}
+
+func main() {
+	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
+		logrus.Fatalf("usage: %v path/to/config.json", os.Args[0])
+	}
+
+	hostname, err := os.Hostname()
+	if err != nil {
+		logrus.Fatalf("failed to get worker hostname: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Default sample configuration
+	sampleConfig := SampleConfig{
+		WorkerID:                hostname,
+		CheckpointInterval:      60,
+		CheckpointRetries:       5,
+		CheckpointRetryInterval: 5,
+	}
+
+	// Load configuration
+	stream, err := os.Open(os.Args[1])
+	if err != nil {
+		logrus.Fatalf("%v: could not open config: %v", os.Args[1], err)
+	}
+
+	// Ensure we close the config
+	defer stream.Close()
+
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(stream).Decode(&sampleConfig); err != nil {
+		logrus.Fatalf("%v: could not parse config: %v", os.Args[1], err)
+	}
+
+	// Create the KCL configuration from our sample config
+	config := kcl_config.NewKinesisClientLibConfig(
+		sampleConfig.Application,
+		sampleConfig.Stream,
+		sampleConfig.Region,
+		sampleConfig.WorkerID,
+	)
+
+	// Create our record processor factory
+	factory := RecordProcessorFactory(func() kcl_interfaces.IRecordProcessor {
+		return &RecordProcessor{
+			CheckpointInterval:      time.Duration(sampleConfig.CheckpointInterval) * time.Second,
+			CheckpointRetries:       sampleConfig.CheckpointRetries,
+			CheckpointRetryInterval: time.Duration(sampleConfig.CheckpointRetryInterval) * time.Second,
+			LastCheckpoint:          time.Now(),
+			LargestSequenceNumber:   big.NewInt(0),
+		}
+	})
+
+	// Create the KCL worker
+	worker := kcl_worker.NewWorker(factory, config)
+
+	logrus.Infof(
+		"Starting KCL Worker (Application Name: %v, Stream Name: %v, Worker ID: %v)",
+		sampleConfig.Application,
+		sampleConfig.Stream,
+		sampleConfig.WorkerID,
+	)
+
+	// Start the KCL worker
+	if err := worker.Start(); err != nil {
+		logrus.Fatalf("failed to start kcl worker: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Ensure we shutdown
+	defer worker.Shutdown()
+
+	// Wait for an exit signal
+	sigchan := make(chan os.Signal)
+	signal.Notify(sigchan, os.Interrupt, os.Kill)
+	<-sigchan
+}
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+{
+  "stream": "kclgosample",
+  "application": "GolangKCLSample",
+  "region": "us-east-1",
+  "checkpoint_interval": 60,
+  "checkpoint_retries": 5,
+  "checkpoint_retry_interval": 5
+}