Show HN: Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers

Re:Show HN: Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers by nevon on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:46AM (#33096218)

I once made the NodeJS Kafka client KafkaJS run in a browser with a websocket-to-tcp-socket shim. If we combine the two we can now have a browser based client talk to a broker cluster running on edge workers. Just gotta integrate it with Google Sheets and wait for the VC money.

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Re:Show HN: Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers by maxwellpeterson on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:31AM (#33096870)

Yep, one of the challenges here is that KafkaJS requires Kafka 0.10+, which is true for several other popular clients. For this broker implementation to be somewhat practical, it would need to be extended to 0.10.0 at least. 0.8.0 was a nice, simple starting point for a “proof of concept” project like this.

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Re:Show HN: Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:53PM (#33098044)

might as well throw it into v86 or compile it to WASM too if you really want the big investment bucks

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Re:Show HN: Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers by m00dy on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @11:26AM (#33096798)

what are the advantages of having this design ?

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Re:Show HN: Kafka 0.8.0 on Cloudflare Workers by nevon on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:41PM (#33097821)

None, but it's really cool to see it working.

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