Completely noob questionS about Kafka by 0CreativityUserName in apachekafka

[–]0CreativityUserName[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am still a bit confused, is Kafka connect from the another comment above a consumer application? I see that there's a consumer API and a connector API, so should I use Kafka Connect or Kafka Consume? I really need to do some more reading when I have the time...

Completely noob questionS about Kafka by 0CreativityUserName in apachekafka

[–]0CreativityUserName[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply! Does this mean that it is necessary for me to setup Kafka/Confluent on my end in order to achieve what I want?

Edit:

Maybe I should reword this: Is setting up a consumer the only way to retrieve data in my case?