The better development experience with Kafka

Apache Kafka de-facto became the most popular open-source distributed streaming platform. It became in the centre of service meshes, data platforms, streaming analytics and hundreds of other use-cases.

Knowledge of Kafka is a must for nearly every software engineer. At the same time, it is not the easiest piece of technology. Even setting it up first time locally time might feel frustrating. In most cases, docker-compose is required, that looks something like this

immediately scaring with environmental variables for configuration and separate zookeeper service. And then, to play around with Kafka you’d typically use docker exec to create topics, send and receive messages

This is not extremely friendly for the new developers to get started with Kafka!

It is just one docker image, no need to use docker-compose. And it includes browser-based terminal, browser-based VS-code version and some other CLI tools that make it easier and more convenient to work with Kafka locally.

Simply execute

and you have 1-broker Kafka cluster up and running locally.

Now you can create topics, and consume events from this topic directly in VS-code using Kafka extension

and consume events from this topic back

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