Fundamentals Workshop: Kafka Connect 101

Monday, September 26, 2022

10:00AM PDT | 6:00PM BST | 1:30PM SGT

For your organization to stay competitive it must adopt a modern, real-time data streaming technology like Apache Kafka®. But besides Kafka, you also have to work with a whole host of other data systems, like databases, cloud services, file systems, etc. But how do you integrate them with Kafka? Enter, Kafka Connect, allowing you to easily move data between said data systems and Kafka.

Join us in this live, interactive session to learn more about Kafka Connect, including:

• The basics of Kafka Connect and why you should use it
• The ecosystem of pluggable connectors, including a variety of open-source connectors, enterprise-supported connectors, and fully managed connectors for a cloud deployment
• How to both add an instance of a connector to Confluent Cloud, and use a Single Message Transform (SMT) with a fully-managed Kafka connector

Resources:

• Blog: Kafka Connect Fundamentals: What is Kafka Connect?
• Blog: Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Converters and Serialization Explained
• Tutorial: Generate simple mock Kafka data using the Datagen connector
• Course: Kafka Connect 101
• Podcast: Why Kafka Connect?
• Podcast: Intro to Kafka ConnectL Core Components and Architecture