diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 13365a2..97d4d04 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,4 +20,18 @@ Once a subscription has declared itself as a publisher, it will enter a loop whe
 
 When sending a message representing an action (subscribe, publish etc) then a uint16 binary message is sent. 
 
-When sending any other data, the length of the data is to be sent first using a binary uint32 and then the actual data sent afterwards. 
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+When sending any other data, the length of the data is to be sent first using a binary uint32 and then the actual data sent afterwards. 
+
+## Running the server
+
+There is a server that can be run using `docker-compose up message-server`. This will start a server running listening on port 3000.
+
+## Example clients
+There is an example application that implements the subscriber and publishers in the `example` directory.
+
+Run `go build .` to build the file.
+
+When running the example there are the following flags:
+
+`publish` : settings this to true will allow messages to be sent every 500ms as well as consuming
+`consume-from` : this allows you to specify what message to start from. If you don't set this or set it to be -1, you will start consuming from the next sent message.
diff --git a/example/server/main.go b/cmd/server/main.go
similarity index 100%
rename from example/server/main.go
rename to cmd/server/main.go
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a556973
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+version: "3.7"
+services:
+  message-server: 
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: dockerfile.server
+    ports: [ "3000:3000" ]
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diff --git a/dockerfile.example-server b/dockerfile.server
similarity index 92%
rename from dockerfile.example-server
rename to dockerfile.server
index 8f91a5d..84291f3 100644
--- a/dockerfile.example-server
+++ b/dockerfile.server
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FROM golang:latest as builder
 WORKDIR /app
 
 COPY go.mod go.sum ./
-COPY example/server/ ./
+COPY cmd/server/ ./
 RUN go mod download
 
 COPY . .
diff --git a/example/main.go b/example/main.go
index d9d8e5c..74e7afb 100644
--- a/example/main.go
+++ b/example/main.go
@@ -11,15 +11,19 @@ import (
 	"github.com/willdot/messagebroker/internal/server"
 )
 
-var consumeOnly *bool
+var publish *bool
 var consumeFrom *int
 
+const (
+	topic = "topic-a"
+)
+
 func main() {
-	consumeOnly = flag.Bool("consume-only", false, "just consumes (doesn't start server and doesn't publish)")
+	publish = flag.Bool("publish", false, "will also publish messages every 500ms until client is stopped")
 	consumeFrom = flag.Int("consume-from", -1, "index of message to start consuming from. If not set it will consume from the most recent")
 	flag.Parse()
 
-	if !*consumeOnly {
+	if *publish {
 		go sendMessages()
 	}
 
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ func main() {
 		startAt = *consumeFrom
 	}
 
-	err = sub.SubscribeToTopics([]string{"topic a"}, startAtType, startAt)
+	err = sub.SubscribeToTopics([]string{topic}, startAtType, startAt)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
@@ -69,7 +73,7 @@ func sendMessages() {
 	i := 0
 	for {
 		i++
-		msg := client.NewMessage("topic a", []byte(fmt.Sprintf("message %d", i)))
+		msg := client.NewMessage(topic, []byte(fmt.Sprintf("message %d", i)))
 
 		err = publisher.PublishMessage(msg)
 		if err != nil {