I am publishing a number of experiments that I have done in the past here on Github instead of leaving them on my hard drives to collect dust in hopes that it helps somebody. I have experimented with this project two years ago on my spare time just to see how we could be building this using golang.
Codename kitty is a simple piece of software that is used in distributed systems in a leader/follower fashion. Basically what this software does is supports all followers to send messages to the leader. The followers have the ability to reconnect if a leader is lost. However, this leaves room for improvement i.e. having a consensus algorithm to automatically elect the leader if one leader goes down etc.
You have to build each program on its own i.e. go build leader.go and go build follower.go appropriately.