rdkafka Reviews and details

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• Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing

  We could have made some changes at the librdkafka level (see this), but we didn’t really want to pursue this (at least not yet). - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Getting sum type values from a map

  As my first "real world" (ish) project in Vlang, I'm trying to copy https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, which is a Go wrapper for Kafka C client library, https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka. Source: over 1 year ago

• Installing node-rdkafka on M1 for use with SASL

  If you're using Kafka in a Node.js app, it's likely that you'll need node-rdkafka. This is a library that wraps the librdkafka library and makes it available in Node.js. According to the project's README, "All the complexity of balancing writes across partitions and managing (possibly ever-changing) brokers should be encapsulated in the library.". - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off

  You are right, but in practice that's not what happens. Companies do not rely on open source libraries, the developers working for such companies do. I can give you a realistic example. If you want to use Kafka and Go, your probably only option is to use https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go. Its LICENSE explicitly says "no warranty". Now, what if I find a bug in the library? Only two realistic... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Hacker News top posts: Mar 26, 2022

  Librdkafka – An Apache Kafka C/C++ client library\ (9 comments). Source: about 2 years ago

• Understanding Kafka with Factorio

  I have found clients based on librdkafka [1] or sarama [2] to be pretty robust and capable. For SSL, librdkafka relies heavily on OpenSSL which can cause a few headaches IME. But the rest is straightforward. [1] https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Getting started with Kafka and Rust: Part 2

  This is a two-part series to help you get started with Rust and Kafka. We will be using the rust-rdkafka crate which itself is based on librdkafka (C library). - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago