Kafka in Action

Appendix B. Client example

Although the code samples in this book focus on the Java Kafka clients, one of the easiest ways to quickly draw parallels for new users might be to look at examples in programming languages that they are more familiar with. The Confluent Platform also has a list of included clients that it supports [1]. In this appendix, we’ll look at Kafka Python clients and then provide some notes on testing your Java clients.

B.1 Python Kafka clients

For this example, we’ll look at the Confluent Python Client [2]. The benefit of using a Confluent client is that you have a higher level of confidence that the clients are compatible, not only with Apache Kafka itself but also with the whole of Confluent’s platform offerings. Let’s take ...