Kafka Connect

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Q1What is Kafka Connect, and how do source and sink connectors move data in and out of Kafka without code?

Kafka Connect moves data into Kafka with source connectors and out of Kafka with sink connectors, all by configuration and with no custom code.

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Q2What is a Source Connector vs a Sink Connector?

A source connector writes external data into Kafka; a sink connector writes Kafka data out to an external system.

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Q3What is the Kafka Connect architecture, and what is standalone vs distributed mode?

Kafka Connect has four building blocks: connectors define the job, tasks move the data, workers host the tasks, and converters handle the wire format, running in either standalone mode for development or distributed mode for production fault tolerance.

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Q4How do you deploy and manage Kafka Connect, and how do you handle connector failures?

Manage Kafka Connect through its REST API for lifecycle operations, monitor with JMX metrics, and handle bad records by setting error tolerance to all with a dead letter queue topic.

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