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I've been working on a pure-Racket Kafka client[1] off and on (for fun) since February and it's a good amount of work. When the official protocol docs and Wires
by Bogdanp 5y ago
I've been working on a pure-Racket Kafka client[1] off and on (for fun) since February and it's a good amount of work. When the official protocol docs and Wireshark fail me, I usually look at librdkafka and kafka-python[2] to figure out how things are supposed to fit together. Kudos to the authors of both libraries for writing code that's easy to follow!
[1]: https://defn.io/2022/03/12/ann-racket-kafka/ https://defn.io/2022/03/12/ann-racket-kafka/
[2]: https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python
- Thev00d00 5y agoI wonder what the license implications are there, considering that Kafka python is Apache 2 where as your project is BSD
- Bogdanp 5y agoI think it depends whether you consider me making a model in my head of how things are supposed to fit together a "derivative work," which I don't. The codebases are vastly different, and it's clear in certain places that kafka-python has taken inspiration from librdkafka (2-clause BSD license), and that both have similarly taken inspiration from the Java client (Apache 2), which makes complete sense to me since the docs are insufficient for building a client, as I mentioned in my OP.