A technical guide on setting Kafka message keys when piping JSON data from jq to kafkacat, using a separator character.
A developer shares a list of UK-centric public and open data sources for building realistic applications and demos.
Explores methods to count messages in a Kafka topic, comparing kafkacat commands with wc to ksqlDB for more detailed, grouped aggregations.
A developer's notes on learning Go by building a Kafka utility, focusing on error handling, command-line arguments, and goroutines.
Explores using the Kafka AdminClient API in Go, covering context usage for timeouts and basic cluster metadata operations.
A tutorial on implementing a function-based Kafka consumer in Go, moving from the deprecated channel-based approach.
A developer's notes on implementing a Kafka consumer in Go using the deprecated channel-based API, including code examples and termination patterns.
A technical guide on implementing error handling and type assertions for a Kafka producer written in Go.
A technical tutorial on creating a basic Kafka producer in Go, highlighting initial setup and code with minimal error handling.
A developer's journey learning to use the Go programming language with Apache Kafka, starting with the Confluent Go client.
A technical guide on using the Kafka REST Proxy API to list and create topics in a Kafka cluster, with practical curl command examples.
A technical tutorial demonstrating how to access and query nested JSON arrays in ksqlDB using array indexing and the EXPLODE function.
A technical guide on manually installing and building the Kafka debugging tool kafkacat (now kcat) on a Fedora system.
A hacky method to monitor Kafka data arrival using kafkacat and Telegram alerts when message timestamps exceed a threshold.
ksqlDB 0.7 adds support for primitive data types as message keys, simplifying data joins and reducing the need for pre-processing.
A technical guide to monitoring Sonos device health by streaming diagnostics data through Kafka, ksqlDB, InfluxDB, and visualizing with Grafana.
A technical guide on using ksqlDB and MongoDB to analyze network syslog data from UniFi devices, including Kafka stream processing.
A technical guide on using ksqlDB and Kafka Connect to ingest and analyze Syslog data for detecting SSH attacks.
A tutorial on using kafkacat to copy data between Kafka clusters via Unix pipelines for quick, simple data replication.
A software engineering intern shares key lessons learned during their summer internship at ASAPP, including project management and teamwork.
