Kafka Clients

This section discusses the Kafka clients included with the Confluent Platform including the Java client, the high-performance C/C++ client called librdkafka, and the Python client confluent-kafka-python.

Tip

You may also want to take a look at Kafka Streams, which is a powerful, easy-to-use library for building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing applications on top of Kafka.

• Kafka Consumers
  • Concepts
  • Configuration
  • Initialization
  • Basic Usage
    • Java Client
    • C/C++ Client (librdkafka)
    • Python Client
  • Detailed Examples
    • Basic Poll Loop
    • Shutdown with Wakeup
    • Synchronous Commits
    • Asynchronous Commits
  • Administration
    • List Groups
    • Describe Group
• Kafka Producers
  • Concepts
  • Configuration
  • Examples
    • Initial Setup
    • Asynchronous Writes
    • Synchronous Writes
• API Docs