5 Kafka Connect

This chapter covers

  • Getting started with Kafka Connect
  • Applying Single Message Transforms
  • Building and deploying your own connector
  • Making your connector dynamic with a monitoring thread
  • Creating a custom transformation

This chapter will teach you how to move events into and out of Apache Kafka quickly. While Kafka can function as a central nervous system for data, it primarily provides a decoupled and centralized approach to data access. Still, other essential services, like full-text searching, report generation, and data analysis, can only be serviced by applications specific to those purposes. No single technology or application can satisfy all the needs of a business or organization.

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