This repository contains everything for an AVRO sandbox that goes along with the talk titled:

Adding Avro to your Kafka streams to meet your messaging needs

Slides to the presentation are available at Slide Share

This repo contains everything that is needed to play around with Avro.

There is a producer that writes to a topic using an Avro schema and at least one consumer of that topic.

The schema can be changed to test out how those changes affect the entire eco-system.

• Docker
• Confluent Platform
  • Technically you don't need this (you can build it yourself) - this is just much simpler
• This repo cloned locally

• Download the Confluent Platform and extract it
  • Examples in this repo are using: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-all-in-one
• Go to cp-all-in-one directory of the Confluent Platform
• Run docker-compose up -d --build
  • Make sure to follow instructions to up your Docker memory to at least 10 GB
  • If you want to stop everything simply run docker-compose down in that directory (or manually stop all docker instances)
• Go to http://localhost:9021/ and create a topic named config_user_rules
  • First time running the build command it may take several minutes for the interface to come up
  • If interface doesn't come up (or acts strangely) make sure that you've increased your Docker memory
• Use the config-manager (See What's in this repo? section) to publish to that topic

Each directory should have its own README.md file talking about and showing how to run each service.

Most directories will be an example that can be run as a Docker container. Run these with the --network host argument and you will not have to worry about connecting things.

Important: These containers are run with the assumption that you have downloaded the Confluent Platform and are running the cp-all-in-one.

• cli-consumer - Kafka Command Line Interface (Go)
• config-manager - producer to the Kafka stream
• java-consumer - Java Consumer Example