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This question comes up on Stack Overflow and such places a lot, so here’s something to try and help. tl;dr: You need to set advertised.listeners (or KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS if you’re using

Confluent’s clients for Apache Kafka® recently passed a major milestone—the release of version 1.0. This has been a long time in the making. Magnus Edenhill first started developing librdkafka about

When it was first created, Apache Kafka® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages

In the previous article, we saw how syslog data can be easily streamed into Apache Kafka® and filtered in real time with KSQL. In this article, we’re going to see how

This is a very exciting time to be part of the Apache Kafka® community! Every four months, a new Apache Kafka release brings additional features and improvements. We’re particularly excited

In this blog post, we’re going to get back to basics and walk through how to get started using Apache Kafka with your Python applications. We will assume some basic

At the end of 2016 we conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community regarding their use of Kafka clients (the producers and consumers used with Kafka) and their priorities

If you are using Apache Kafka from a language other than Java one of the first questions you probably have is something like, “Why are there two (or five!) clients

When Kafka was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, we