Compact integer encoding for Kafka payloads — smaller messages without giving up clarity.
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Every Kafka record with a Long value you produce sends 8 bytes over the wire, even when the value is 42. Bijou64 encodes integers in 1–3 bytes with drop-in serializers, cutting network transfer and replication traffic on integer-heavy topics by up to 50% or more.
SSE Kafka Connector: Stream Real-time Events into Kafka
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The Problem: Getting Real-time Data into Kafka # Have you ever tried to stream Wikipedia changes or other real-time Server-Sent Events (SSE) updates into Kafka? If you have, you probably wrote custom Kafka producer and consumer code to handle these events, managed reconnections, and built your own error handling.
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Led Apicurio Registry V2→V3 for Event Streams; upstream HTTP MCP + OAuth forwarding is an open PR under review.