Is there any replacement for kafka connect kinesis? - apache-kafka

I am trying to find the api that connects kinesis to kafka.
The API listed on the kafka connecter website is dead.
see https://github.com/jcustenborder/kafka-connect-kinesis
Any suggested replacement?

This connector will be included in the Confluent Enterprise connector program, and will be available for download soon from https://confluent.io

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Is there any Kafka connector which integrates with REST API and writes data to kafka topic?

I have a requirement in my project where I have to get the data after hitting a REST service. Is there any Kafka connector that does this work or I have to write the custom code using streams or producer ?
I tried finding REST connector on ( https://www.confluent.io/hub/ ) but could not find anything. Can you please suggest?
Seems you're asking for the HTTP Sink Connector, which does exist on that page.
There is also a kafka-connect-rest project on Github

How to use Kafka with Neo4j community edition

I installed Neo4j and I can access the server. I can make nodes though cypher.
Now I want to use it for data streams. But I'm not sure how to do so. I just started Neo4j and I'm struggling with installing 'Stream Plugin'.
Any help is highly appreciated.
You should copy the jar files for the Neo4j streams plugin directly into your /plugins folder and configure the connections to Kafka and Zookeeper as well as other Neo4j property values at the neo4j.conf file as described here. For example:
kafka.zookeeper.connect=zookeeper-host:2181
kafka.bootstrap.servers=kafka-host:9092
Alternatively, if you are looking only for a sink connection from Kafka (i.e. moving records from Kafka topics to into Neo4j), you can also use Kafka Connect with the the supported Kafka Connect Neo4j Sink. More at https://www.confluent.io/hub/neo4j/kafka-connect-neo4j

Does WSO2 Micro Integrator Supports Kafka 2.3.1 Inbound Endpoint to read messages from Kafka?

'I am working on a Kafka Integration, where I a publishing and reading messages from topic.
I am able to publish messages to topic but unable to read those messages using inbound endpoint.
When I checked WSO2 documentation, they are recommending Kafka kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1 which is very old.
Can't we use the latest version of Kafka with Micro Integrator? Can any one suggest please.'
If you are using the Kafka Inbound endpoint from the WSO2 connector store, then you should be able to use the latest versions. Checkout this documentation https://github.com/wso2-extensions/esb-inbound-kafka/blob/release-1.0.7/docs/config.md
Also checkout this github issue thread https://github.com/wso2/product-ei/issues/2239

Kafka Connect with Amazon MSK

How do I use Kafka Connect adapters with Amazon MSK?
As per the AWS documentation, it supports Kafka connect but not documented about how to setup adapters and use it.
Edit Oct 2021: MSK Connect has been launched, see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-msk-connect-stream-data-to-and-from-your-apache-kafka-clusters-using-managed-connectors/
AFAIK Amazon MSK does not provide managed connectors, so you have to run them yourself. This is done by running the Kafka Connect worker process (a JVM) and then providing it one or more connector configurations to run.
From the point of view of a Kafka Connect worker it just needs a Kafka cluster to connect to; it shouldn't matter whether it's MSK or on-premises, since it's ultimately 'just' a consumer/producer underneath.
You can see more, including a live demo, here: https://rmoff.dev/bbuzz19-kafka-connect
For an example of configuring Kafka Connect to use a cloud-hosted Kafka platform (in this case, Confluent Cloud), see this article.
If you are interested in managed connectors in the Cloud, check out the connectors that are provided in Confluent Cloud.
Disclaimer: I work for Confluent :)
AWS now supports MSK Connect, a new feature of MSK service based on Kafka Connect allowing you to deploy managed Kafka connectors built for Kafka connect
Check the announcement here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-msk-connect-stream-data-to-and-from-your-apache-kafka-clusters-using-managed-connectors/
There are two aspects to this
Kafka Connect is a framework which should be deployed separately from kafka brokers. MSK only provides kafka brokers. If you want to use Kafka Connect with MSK you would need to use EC2 instances and deploy the kafka binaries.Kafka Connect framework is bundled along with kafka
Coming to connectors if you donot have a confluent subscription or similar - I am afraid your choices get very limited. But having said you can always write your own connectors. Writing new connectors is not that difficult rather you can apply your business specific logic and be on your way quite quickly.

How to load data from Kafka into CrateDB?

From the following issue at CrateDB GitHub page it seems it is not possible, i.e., the Kafka protocol is not supported by CrateDB.
https://github.com/crate/crate/issues/7459
Is there another way to load data from Kafka into CrateDB?
Usually you'd use Kafka Connect for integrating Kafka to target (and source) systems, using the appropriate connector for the destination technology.
I can't find a Kafka Connect connector for CrateDB, but there is a JDBC sink connector for Kafka Connect, and a JDBC driver for CrateDB, so this may be worth a try.
You can read more about Kafka Connect here, and see it in action in this blog series:
https://www.confluent.io/blog/simplest-useful-kafka-connect-data-pipeline-world-thereabouts-part-1/
https://www.confluent.io/blog/blogthe-simplest-useful-kafka-connect-data-pipeline-in-the-world-or-thereabouts-part-2/
https://www.confluent.io/blog/simplest-useful-kafka-connect-data-pipeline-world-thereabouts-part-3/
Disclaimer: I work for Confluent, and I wrote the above blog posts.