Event Streaming

I built Stream Wars as a tiny tap game to demo how Kafka works, by turning every tap in the browser into a real Kafka event you can inspect.

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. There had to be a better way. Introducing the SSE Kafka Connector I’m excited to share my new open-source project: a generic Kafka Connect connector for Server-Sent Events. It lets you stream data from any SSE endpoint straight into Kafka topics—no custom code required. ...