Kafka-connect: overview
Kafka-connect: overview Imagine you have a task where you need to fetch some data from a database and incrementally store it in kafka or read the consumed data from kafka and store it in the database. You can solve both tasks using plain kafka consumer/producer API or even use kafka streams library, but if you don’t need comprehensive data transformations (e.g. enrichment, stream joining) then you can use Kafka connect for it. ...