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Easily build and connect real-time applications to Apache Kafka®
Confluent Platform makes it easier for developers to leverage data in motion by providing multi-language development tools to build producers and consumers for Kafka.
Features
Non-Java Clients
Battle-tested clients for C/C++, Go, Python, and .NET to write Kafka producers and consumers and run administrative functions. These clients are fully open-sourced and are consistently maintained to ensure their continued high performance.
REST Proxy
REST Proxy provides a RESTful interface to your Kafka cluster, making it easy for your HTTP-connected applications to produce and consume messages without needing to use Kafka clients.
Admin REST APIs
Admin REST APIs enable you to perform the same administrative operations as the Confluent clients, Confluent CLI, or Control Center through REST, providing greater flexibility in how you manage your cluster.
Make Kafka widely accessible to developers
Support for popular programming languages
Build modern, real-time applications with the language best suited to your business needs. Extend developer flexibility beyond Java with robust, Confluent-backed Kafka clients for C/C++, Go, Python, and .NET.
Community-supported languages enhance developer freedom of choice
Leverage Kafka client functionality through an extensive ecosystem of additional programming languages supported by the open source community.
Connect any application to Kafka
RESTful interface to Kafka
Enable any HTTP-connected application to produce to and consume from your Kafka cluster with REST Proxy. This is particularly useful for your legacy applications written in languages without a supported Kafka client.
Access for third-party applications
Allow third-party applications from your key partner organizations to produce and consume messages to and from Kafka without any risk to the security of your cluster. REST Proxy can be used in combination with applications designed to work with HTTP such as API gateways.
Standardized communication on REST
More and more enterprises are choosing to standardize all communication between applications on REST. REST Proxy helps you meet this organizational requirement without impacting your developers’ productivity with Kafka.
Simplify administration operations for Kafka
Manage Kafka through REST
Perform a comprehensive set of administrative operations through REST APIs, including:
- Describe, list, and configure brokers
- Create, delete, describe, list, and configure topics
- Delete, describe, and list consumer groups
- Create, delete, describe, and list ACLs
- List partition reassignments