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This article provides an overview of the available blocks in the Apache Kafka connector in Qlik Application Automation.
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
Authentication to Apache Kafka happens through Basic Authentication. To use this connector, you need to provide the username and password to your Rest Proxy Server. When you connect to Apache Kafka in Qlik Application Automation you will be presented with the following screen:
The blocks that are available in the Apache Kafka connector focus on Producing events to topics in the Apache Kafka cluster.
Apache Kafka blocks make use of the Confluent Rest Proxy APIs to produce and consume messages from an Apache Kafka cluster.
Some companies may already use Apache Kafka for application integration challenges. Applications push and pull data from specific topics to communicate with one another. This solves the issues where each application has to talk to every other application. It is identical to what a service bus would do.
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