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+# Chat Service
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+The chat service is an example Micro service which leverages bidirectional streaming, the store and events to build a chat backend. There is both a server and client which can be run together to demonstrate the application (see client/main.go for more instructions on running the service).
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+The service is documented inline and is designed to act as a reference for the events package.
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