Push Real-Time Data to the Web with the Kafka Connect HTTP Sink

This post introduces the Kafka Connect HTTP Sink Connector and demonstrates its use in pushing real-time data from Kafka to web services. It provides a step-by-step guide for setting up Confluent Platform locally, installing and configuring the HTTP Sink Connector, and running a Node.js web service to receive and forward data as Server-Sent Events (SSE) to a frontend. The post also includes instructions for testing the end-to-end pipeline by producing messages to Kafka and observing them in the web browser.