Getting Started as a Kafka Developer

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  • kcat

    Generic command line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer

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

  • cli

    CLI for Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform (by confluentinc)

  • Confluent CLI - https://docs.confluent.io/confluent-cli/current/overview.html

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  • kcctl

    A modern and intuitive command line client for Kafka Connect

  • kcctl (CLI for Kafka Connect) - https://github.com/kcctl/kcctl

  • kafdrop

    Kafka Web UI

  • Kafdrop - https://github.com/obsidiandynamics/kafdrop

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  • Once you’ve decided on a language to focus on, it’s time to start filling those knowledge gaps. Don’t be discouraged by this step. We all have knowledge gaps, and filling them can be very rewarding. First, you’ll want to make sure you have a good understanding of Kafka basics. Fortunately, there are many resources to help you with this. A web search will turn up many great books and other resources. And, of course, Confluent Developer offers interactive courses ranging from introductory (Apache Kafka 101) to advanced (Kafka Internals), full documentation, and other content to help you get started.

  • akhq

    Kafka GUI for Apache Kafka to manage topics, topics data, consumers group, schema registry, connect and more...

  • akHQ - https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq

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