Kafka Connect is the integration API for Apache Kafka. Check out this video for an overview of what Kafka Connect enables you to do, and how to do it.
There’s ways, and then there’s ways, to count the number of records/events/messages in a Kafka topic. Most of them are potentially inaccurate, or inefficient, or both. Here’s one that falls into the potentially inefficient category, using kafkacat to read all the messages and pipe to wc which with the -l will tell you how many lines there are, and since each message is a line, how many messages you have in the Kafka topic:
$ kafkacat -b broker:29092 -t mytestopic -C -e -q| wc -l
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I had the pleasure of presenting at DataEngBytes recently, and am delighted to share with you the 🗒️ slides, 👾 code, and 🎥 recording of my ✨brand new talk✨:
A tiny snippet since I wasted 10 minutes going around the houses on this one…
tl;dr: If you try to create a command that is not in lower case (e.g. Alert not alert) then the setMyCommands API will return BOT_COMMAND_INVALID
The server sends Transfer-Encoding: chunked data, and you want to work with the data as you get it, instead of waiting for the server to finish, the EOF to fire, and then process the data?
When I set out to learn Go one of the aims I had in mind was to write a version of this little Python utility which accompanies a blog I wrote recently about understanding and diagnosing problems with Kafka advertised listeners. Having successfully got Producer, Consumer, and AdminClient API examples working, it is now time to turn to that task.
