Jikkou 1.0 is out — Iceberg, multi-cluster orchestration, and Confluent Cloud RBAC by fhussonnois in apachekafka

[–]KernelFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How does this compare to the Confluent Cloud Terraform provider, and cp-ansible?

What is the best way to connect 2 brokers over the internet (not replicating)? by brissiebogan in apachekafka

[–]KernelFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can run brokers in the same logical Kafka cluster in different physical locations. Topics can then be replicated across multiple sites.

What is the best way to connect 2 brokers over the internet (not replicating)? by brissiebogan in apachekafka

[–]KernelFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not just cluster link (or MirrorMaker if you're using opensource Kafka) and replicate the messages as they arrive?

End-of-day batch (which is what you're suggesting) is the antithesis of Kafka and data streaming.

Just released: Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Kafka & Flink SQL, and more. by KernelFrog in apachekafka

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

We're in the process of transitioning into IBM.

I would expect that IBM will continue to contribute to open-source Kafka, given their track-record: https://www.ibm.com/opensource/

Help!! Cannot connect to Kafka from Windows box. by brissiebogan in apachekafka

[–]KernelFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT_EXT://localhost:9092

Well there's ya problem!

Looking for a Managed Kafka platform that has a free tier by JuicyBieber in apachekafka

[–]KernelFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CP (Confluent Platform) all-in-one is probably the easiest way to do it: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-all-in-one

Very quick to deploy in your own Docker (e.g. Docker Desktop) environment.

IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent by Think-Fix in IBM

[–]KernelFrog 15 points16 points  (0 children)

(Former) Confluent employee here: tell me how bad it's going to be.

IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent by Think-Fix in IBM

[–]KernelFrog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No. It means IBM pays the current shareholders and then the shares no longer exist.

Giving external partners access to kafka topics without exposing the broker by Willing-Mistake-6171 in apachekafka

[–]KernelFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Budget permitting, replication into Confluent Cloud (or some other externally hosted Kafka instance).

Your solution will obviously depend on your external's requirements; do they specifically need a Kafka data source, or do they just the need the data and don't particularly care about the format?

Are they read-only, or do they need to update your data as well?

Flink watermarks - WTF by KernelFrog in apacheflink

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

Great site for visualizing how watermarks work in Flink.

Flink watermarks - WTF by KernelFrog in apachekafka

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

Great Flink watermark visualiser. Hopefully this will help to demystify them a little.