Getting started with Kafka in node.js with the Confluent REST Proxy | Confluent

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This post details the creation of a node.js wrapper library for the Confluent REST Proxy. It explains the design choices for the wrapper, focusing on mirroring the REST API and providing a user-friendly interface for producing messages (handling various formats, serialization, and batching) and consuming messages (using an EventEmitter-like API). It also presents a practical application example: a Twitter trending topics aggregator that demonstrates streaming data from Twitter to Kafka using the wrapper, processing it with Avro schemas, and exposing the results.