Single Message Transforms in Kafka Connect

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This post introduces and details Kafka Connect's Single Message Transforms (SMTs) capability. It explains the concept, provides configuration examples for built-in transforms like RegexRouter and ValueToKey, demonstrates chaining multiple transforms, and offers a deep dive into writing custom SMTs with a Java code example for inserting UUIDs. It also defines the scope and limitations of SMTs, distinguishing them from stream processing tasks.