kcat VS Redis

So, is JR yet another faking library written in Go? Yes and no. JR indeed implements most of the APIs in fakerjs and Go fake it, but it's also able to stream data directly to stdout, Kafka, Redis and more (Elastic and MongoDB coming). JR can talk directly to Confluent Schema Registry, manage json-schema and Avro schemas, easily maintain coherence and referential integrity. If you need more than what is OOTB in JR, you can also easily pipe your data streams to other cli tools like kcat thanks to its flexibility.

This deployment creates a kcat container we can use to produce and consume messages.

Now we don't see any additional output. To verify it worked, let's use kafkacat to consume the topic's events. (We install kafkacat in the Dev Container. Please run the following command in VSCode's terminal)

Before we come to an end here, let's explore one additional helpful tool: kcat (formerly known as kafkacat).

Let's look at the data in the ad_events topic from the Kafka broker and see if we can identify the problem. We'll install kcat (formerly kafkacat):

kcat (formerly KafkaCat) - https://github.com/edenhill/kcat

Start with multiple consumers and produce events (this gives a sense about consistency or need for reliable data) - Producer could be command line or kafkacat

kcat is an awesome tool to make our life easier, it allows us to read and write from kafka topics without tons of scripts and in a more user-friendly way.

kcat

Hi there! I want to show off a little feature I made using hanami, htmx and a little bit of redis + sidekiq.

Data Handling: Utilizes Windmill for data pipelines, with a primary database powered by PostgreSQL. Auxiliary data storage is handled by MongoDB, with Redis for caching to optimize performance

One of the challenges Redis labs here have is that there's very little reason for their userbase to stay loyal to them.

antirez retired from Redis development a few years ago.

From https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors it looks like activity since he left has been mostly from people who didn't overlap with him much.

Redis Labs have not shown themselves to be outstanding stewards of the project as far as I can tell. Why shouldn't people support the fork?

Redis

Redis - real time data storage with different data structures in a cache

[0] https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/CONTRIBUTING.md

Cache: a Redis cache