Easy Ways to Generate Test Data in Kafka | Confluent

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Introduces the Kafka Connect Datagen Connector for generating test data, allowing users to create realistic datasets for testing client applications, building demos, and troubleshooting. It covers using the Confluent CLI to launch Confluent Platform and generate data with the Datagen connector, including customizing schemas and formats (Avro, JSON, String). Additionally, it demonstrates using the ksql-datagen command-line tool for generating Avro records directly to Kafka topics.