An Overview of the Kafka clients ecosystem. APIs – wire protocol clients – higher level clients (Streams) – REST Languages (with simple snippets – full examples in GitHub) – the most developed clients – Java and C/C++ – the librdkafka wrappers node-rdkafka, python, GO, C# – why use wrappers Shell scripted Kafka ( e.g. custom health checks) kafkacat Platform gotchas (e.g. SASL on Win32)
Presented at Kafka Summit SF 2017 by Edoardo Comar and Andrew Schofield, IBM