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sarama
Discontinued Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama] (by Shopify)
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- Librdkafka: High-performance Apache Kafka C/C++ Client Library
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Confluent Deletes/Hides Librdkafka
the main repo is back: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka
No word from confluent at all on this yet.
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Do you use Rust in your professional career?
recent PR: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/pull/4275
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JR, quality Random Data from the Command line, part I
# Kafka configuration # https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md bootstrap.servers= security.protocol=SASL_SSL sasl.mechanisms=PLAIN sasl.username= sasl.password= compression.type=gzip compression.level=9 statistics.interval.ms=1000
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A Critical Detail about Kafka Partitioners
But what about Kafka producer clients in other languages? The excellent librdkafka project is a C/C++ implementation of Kafka clients and is widely used for non-JVM Kafka applications. Additionally, Kafka clients in other languages (Python, C#) build on top of it. The default partitioner for librdkafka uses the CRC32 hash function to get the correct partition for a key.
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Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing
We could have made some changes at the librdkafka level (see this), but we didn’t really want to pursue this (at least not yet).
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Events with same key going to different partitions
You want records with the same key to always land on the same partition, so you need all the clients to use the same hashing algorithm. The easiest way to do that is to make sure the librdkafka client uses the java compatible murmur2_random hash algorithm. See “Partitioner” section here: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md
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Getting sum type values from a map
As my first "real world" (ish) project in Vlang, I'm trying to copy https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, which is a Go wrapper for Kafka C client library, https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka
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Installing node-rdkafka on M1 for use with SASL
If you're using Kafka in a Node.js app, it's likely that you'll need node-rdkafka. This is a library that wraps the librdkafka library and makes it available in Node.js. According to the project's README, "All the complexity of balancing writes across partitions and managing (possibly ever-changing) brokers should be encapsulated in the library."
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Introduction to Key Apache KafkaⓇ Concepts
# Parse the configuration. # See https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md config_parser = ConfigParser() config_parser.read_file(args.config_file) config = dict(config_parser['default']) # Create Producer instance producer = Producer(config)
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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The primary programming language of librdkafka is C.
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