Getting Started With Confluent for VS Code

This post announces the Early Access Program for Confluent for VS Code, an extension that integrates Confluent's streaming capabilities directly into the VS Code IDE. It aims to streamline development workflows for Kafka and Flink developers by providing features such as project templates, Kafka topic management (listing, creating, editing, deleting, browsing messages), integration with Schema Registry, and live debugging of data streams alongside code. The extension is open-source and available on the VS Code Marketplace.