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From: Gwen Shapira <gwen@confluent.io>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 03:45:21 +0000
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Subject: Re: kafka connect questions
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I don't remember seeing one. There is no reason not to write one (let us
know if you do, so we can put it on the connector hub!).

Few things:
1. Connectors that listen on sockets typically run in stand-alone mode, so
they can tied to a specific machine (in distributed mode, connectors can
move around).
2. Why do you need a connector? Why not just use Kafka producer to send
protobuf directly to Kafka?

Gwen
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 9:02 AM Clay Teahouse <clayteahouse@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'd appreciate your help with the following questions.
>
> 1) Is there kafka connect for listening to tcp sockets?
>
> 2) If, can the messages be in protobuf, with each messaged prefixed with
> the length of the message?
>
> thanks
> Clay
>

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