Announcing Kafka Connect: Building large-scale low-latency data pipelines | Confluent

This post announces the introduction of Kafka Connect, a framework for building and managing stream data pipelines using Apache Kafka. It addresses the challenges of data integration by abstracting common problems such as schema management, fault tolerance, parallelism, latency, delivery semantics, and operations/monitoring. Kafka Connect supports Source and Sink connectors, leverages Kafka's parallelism model and offset management for scalability and fault tolerance, and aims to foster a rich ecosystem of connectors.