Kafka management apps compared for local development, covering IAM access control and integration with MSK Connect and Glue Schema Registry.

How a non-Java developer prepared for and passed the Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka exam, which assumes the Java APIs throughout.

Set up a Kafka cluster with Docker Compose, the base for a series on developing and testing Kafka applications for AWS in containers.

A survey of the Kafka connectors available for AWS service integration, as the starting point for building real time data pipelines on AWS.

Integrate Python Kafka producer and consumer apps running on AWS Lambda with the Glue Schema Registry, which manages and validates message schemas.

Stream Kafka records from Amazon MSK into Athena through its direct integration, with a producer Lambda built locally using AWS SAM and Terraform.

Stream Kafka records from Amazon MSK into Redshift through its direct integration, with a producer Lambda built locally using AWS SAM and Terraform.

Configure a Kafka consumer to seek offsets by timestamp while partitions are assigned by subscription, on a single node cluster in Docker Compose.

Deploy a Change Data Capture pipeline to AWS with the Apicurio registry on ECS, private subnets over VPN and the Avro converter packaged with the connectors.

A local Change Data Capture setup on Docker Compose with Debezium, the Confluent S3 sink and the Apicurio registry, showing how schema evolution is managed.