Kafka Connectors — All you need to know to start using connectors in Kafka

Rishabh Agarwal
3 min readJul 16, 2022

Apache Kafka is by far the most popular event streaming framework in the year 2022. Stack Overflow’s recently concluded 2022 Developer survey lists the top paying Frameworks and Libraries. It is no surprise to see Apache Kafka featuring at the second spot in the rankings. With fresh opportunities emerging every second, it’s critical for developers in the sector to pick up this technology right now.

Top 5 Libraries and Framework by Pay in 2022

In this series of blog, we have already discussed about the basics of Apache Kafka and have completed a hands-on with Kafka. Readers interested in reading or unfamiliar with the concepts of Kafka can give access it from the links below.

In this story, we will be discussing one of the very important component of Apache Kafka — Connectors. We will understand the purpose and the need for Connectors. We will understand connectors’ working and learn how we can use them in our project.

What are Kafka Connectors?

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Rishabh Agarwal

Software Developer 2 @ Schrödinger | IIT CSE Graduate - Writes about Software Engineering!