Kafka Naming

[Jonathan Goings <JG...@jackhenry.com>]

I've been working through product redesign and development with product groups in our organization.

Has anyone ever tried to explain data flow through Kafka to non-Kafka people and notice the inconveniently named Kafka product offerings?

Please rename Connect and Streams.

Jonathan Goings

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RE: Kafka Naming

[Jonathan Goings <JG...@jackhenry.com>]

Example convo. 😊

Me: how will you pull data from Kafka to Elastic?
Non-kafka: we're going to us a consumer

Me: Ok, is that a standalone app?
Non-kafka: no, we're just going to stream it through Kafka and use there out of the box solution

Me: Do you need me to configure connect?
Non-kafka: Well, we'll need to connect. We're just going to subscribe to the stream.

Me: How are you going to subscribe to the stream?
Non-kafka: with the out of the box connector

Me: OK?!? Do you need me to configure a Connect cluster?
Non-kafka: Not at the moment. We're just going to stream the data to our consumer into elastic.

Me (hoping to get past the connect issue): Will you actually be using Kafka Streams?
Non-kafka: yes, we have to stream data through Kafka

Me: Who IS on first?

No, I don't think the names are descriptive. 😊

Jonathan Goings

-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Clarke-Hutchinson <li...@adscale.co.nz> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 3:47 PM
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Subject: Re: Kafka Naming

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Hi Jonathon,

Kafka Connect is designed to, well, connect things to Kafka.
Kafka Streams is for stream processing using Kafka.

They're rather descriptive and apt names, don't you think? If it helps, we abbreviate Connect as KC and Streams as KStreams in our organisation.

Kind regards,

Liam Clarke

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:18 AM Jonathan Goings <JG...@jackhenry.com>
wrote:

> I've been working through product redesign and development with 
> product groups in our organization.
>
> Has anyone ever tried to explain data flow through Kafka to non-Kafka 
> people and notice the inconveniently named Kafka product offerings?
>
> Please rename Connect and Streams.
>
> Jonathan Goings
>
> NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it 
> are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is 
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Re: Kafka Naming

[Liam Clarke-Hutchinson <li...@adscale.co.nz>]

Hi Jonathon,

Kafka Connect is designed to, well, connect things to Kafka.
Kafka Streams is for stream processing using Kafka.

They're rather descriptive and apt names, don't you think? If it helps, we
abbreviate Connect as KC and Streams as KStreams in our organisation.

Kind regards,

Liam Clarke

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:18 AM Jonathan Goings <JG...@jackhenry.com>
wrote:

> I've been working through product redesign and development with product
> groups in our organization.
>
> Has anyone ever tried to explain data flow through Kafka to non-Kafka
> people and notice the inconveniently named Kafka product offerings?
>
> Please rename Connect and Streams.
>
> Jonathan Goings
>
> NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are
> intended
> exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The
> message,
> together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged
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>