Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka
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Agreed. The scripting feature in Franz is born out of my frustration with some of this stuff and seems like a promising route for quickly visualizing and interacting with what’s happening on a topic (though it’s early days and I’ve got lots of work to do until it becomes truly useful).
Services can either store it in their own database and still get an update stream, or services can read the complete set on boot and keep it in memory. It can avoid the need for RPC/REST calls so centralized services that keep track off this kind of data, preventing cascading failures if those fail.
https://github.com/kellanburket/franz
That sounds even closer to home in that case!
I hope you do a walk through of the code for this.
At the same time, RedPanda provides a native command-line tool named "rpk" which works on macOS as well and which can manage topics and consumer groups. Which makes me think that not only would RedPanda users select this, but perhaps it's also a better generic CLI to talk to Kafka?
I get wanted to do cool things (and experiment in spare time) and admire the work but part does feel a missed opportunity too.
Either way not my say so at the end this is your work and you should be proud of it :)
Can you say more? I don’t follow what you mean by publicly usable here.
In other words, to make this easier it might be a good idea to have a builtin ssh/(generic CMD) kind of way of opening streams.
Will try next week at work