Kickstart custom Kafka connectors with a GitHub template, structure, and integration-test harness.
Kafka Connector Template
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SSE Kafka Connector
Kafka Connect source that turns Server-Sent Events streams into Kafka topics — used in Event Streams demos.
Apicurio Registry
Led Apicurio Registry V2→V3 for Event Streams; upstream HTTP MCP + OAuth forwarding is an open PR under review.
Send Half the Bytes Over the Network: Cut Kafka Integer Payloads with Bijou64
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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.