I have written about the confluent kafka system before, so I’d like to try and summarize it to make it easy to digest. In essence, the confluent kafka system is a method for organizing multiple processes in a central place. If you’re familiar with Kafka, then you may already know this, but if not, here is a brief overview.
Basically it works like this: Kafka lets you use a single topic to store messages. For example, when youre using Kafka to store information about a party, you would store it in a topic called ‘party’. When a user sends a message to a Kafka topic, the message is pushed out to all of the Kafka workers (which are then distributed to different topics based on the partitioner theyre using).
Kafka looks good, but it isn’t perfect. One of the key problems with Kafka is that it can only handle very small message sizes, so many messages are lost when youre using a topic that has a lot of messages. Apache Kafka has a much better message size control, but it doesn’t let you get smaller message sizes.
Confluent is a big software company that does a lot of Kafka development and support. Apache Kafka is not a big company, but its developers have been working on a lot of different projects over the years and it looks like they might have found a way to make Apache Kafka better. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were on track to release Confluent as a mature product.
While I’m not a big fan of the way Confluent’s developer evangelism has been lacking in the past couple of years, I’m more interested in this discussion because it shows that the developers of Apache Kafka are actually interested in making the project better.
The main goal of confluent is to make sure it’s easy to build. The developers of Confluent are trying to use the default confluent-plugin for Apache Kafka, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. The main goal of confluent is to make it easier to install and use Apache Kafka by making it easier to manage confluent- plugin dependencies.
The main goal of confluent is to make it easier to use confluent- plugin dependencies. The main goal of confluent is to make sure that the confluent-plugin does what it says it does. By having a default confluent-plugin, confluent is less likely to be used.
If you’re a user of the standard confluent-plugin, then apache-kafka is probably more than a little bit of an improvement. The main difference is that apache-kafka uses an API that is more compatible with the confluent-plugin. If you’re using the standard confluent-plugin, then you should be able to use apache-kafka.
Apache-kafka is a little bit simpler to use than confluent-kafka, but the main difference is that the apache-kafka API is built on top of the confluent-plugin and the confluent-plugin is built on top of the apache-kafka API. That means that the confluent-plugin is more likely to get used, but the apache-kafka API is more likely to be used.
It’s important to remember that confluent-plugin is not an API. Rather, confluent-plugin is a service that is built around using the confluent-plugin. And that means that confluent-plugin is more likely to be used. And I don’t want to see your apache-kafka API on top of confluent-plugin.
