Kafka Tools that Boost Developer Productivity

This post introduces and details the usage of three command-line tools that enhance developer productivity when working with Apache Kafka: kafkacat for producing and consuming messages (including Avro with Schema Registry), Confluent REST Proxy for HTTP-based Kafka interactions (producing Avro, consuming, and metadata retrieval), and jq for processing JSON output from these tools. It demonstrates practical examples of using these tools for common development tasks.