Data Lake for Enterprises

Kafka REST interface

The REST interface wrapping the core API’s created and maintained by Confluent (company created by ex-LinkedIn engineering team who created Kafka). Using these API’s does have performance overhead, as it needs two hops to do a piece of work. It also requires an additional server for hosting these REST API’s. In addition, for every call to these API’s, additional time is lost in parsing the JSON request and also for creating the JSON response.