Kafka Connect Integration

Kafka Connect is a framework for building, deploying, and managing data connectors that move data between Kafka and external systems at scale. A connector is a plugin that abstracts the tedious work of polling databases, paginating APIs, handling errors, and managing offsets. You write a connector once (source or sink), configure it, and it runs independently, scaling horizontally across a cluster. Source connectors pull data from external systems (databases, APIs, message queues) into Kafka topics. Sink connectors push data from Kafka topics into external systems (data warehouses, caches, search engines, APIs). The framework handles distributed coordination, fault recovery, and schema management.