Project Metamorphosis Month 8: Complete Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud

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This post introduces the 'Complete' aspect of Project Metamorphosis, focusing on Confluent's comprehensive ecosystem for event streaming. It highlights Confluent Hub with over 120 pre-built connectors for integrating existing systems with Kafka, including managed connectors in Confluent Cloud. Specific new connectors are listed: PostgreSQL Source (JDBC), MySQL Source (JDBC), Snowflake Sink, Amazon Redshift Sink, Oracle Database Source (JDBC), Microsoft SQL Server Source (JDBC), Google Cloud Spanner Sink, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Sink, and Elasticsearch Service Sink. It also emphasizes ksqlDB for stream processing and turning data into action, detailing its capabilities for filtering, transforming, aggregating, creating materialized views, and enriching data. The post also shows how ksqlDB can manage connectors via SQL syntax, simplifying CDC setup.