[HN Gopher] Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka
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       Show HN: A native macOS client for Apache Kafka
        
       Author : Bogdanp
       Score  : 95 points
       Date   : 2022-11-20 20:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | pram wrote:
       | Can you manage ACLs through this? Anyway looks sweet, I'm going
       | to try it on Monday at work. This is definitely something I'd pay
       | for.
        
       | xyst wrote:
       | what kind of authentication mechanisms does it work with? We have
       | an oauth and ldap backed cluster. This tool would be a nice drop
       | in tool for diagnosing issues.
       | 
       | Will try next week at work
        
       | monocularvision wrote:
       | Love seeing folks create new native macOS apps. Thanks for this!
        
       | dpsych wrote:
       | Wow! Just in time, can't wait to use this during work.
        
       | googletron wrote:
       | Very cool project! I wanted to listen to your video, but the
       | microphone noise was too much.
       | 
       | I hope you do a walk through of the code for this.
        
         | Bogdanp wrote:
         | Sorry about that! My audio recording skills are subpar. Yes,
         | likely my next video will be a walkthrough of some of this
         | code. I'll do my best with the audio on that one.
        
           | googletron wrote:
           | yeah just grab a cheap external microphone, it will do the
           | trick! Keep up the awesome work.
        
           | taspeotis wrote:
           | You could try running it through Auphonic's free tier
           | https://auphonic.com/pricing
        
       | skunkworker wrote:
       | Will this support RedPanda out of the box?
        
         | alexandre_m wrote:
         | Most likely it will.
         | 
         | At the same time, RedPanda provides a native command-line tool
         | named "rpk" which works on macOS as well and which can manage
         | topics and consumer groups. Which makes me think that not only
         | would RedPanda users select this, but perhaps it's also a
         | better generic CLI to talk to Kafka?
        
         | Bogdanp wrote:
         | I have yet to try RedPanda, but if it is API compatible with
         | Kafka then it will work out of the box.
        
       | shric wrote:
       | Franz is a fairly obvious name for a Kafka related tool/library
       | so hopefully it won't get confused with
       | https://github.com/twmb/franz-go
        
         | rzzzt wrote:
         | It is also the name of this multi-provider messaging app:
         | https://meetfranz.com/
        
       | sonicgear1 wrote:
       | Seems like a neat little tool. I've always found Confluent
       | Platform to be slow, clunky and overkill. Any plans for Windows?
        
         | Bogdanp wrote:
         | Yes, if this gains some traction then I'll probably do a
         | Windows version down the line.
        
       | thom wrote:
       | Cool, would be nice to see more competition for Conduktor. I have
       | worked with a few "Kafka is a database" people in my career and
       | even if you agree with them, it's still a terrible one from a
       | tooling perspective. Having to debug Kafka issues on topics with
       | almost any volume of data is slow and frustrating, either with a
       | GUI or command line/REPL tools. Your only hope (if you absolutely
       | have to wrangle Kafka in the core of a project) is heavy testing
       | with the test driver from the start and hoping to avoid getting
       | into too many knots. It's interesting to note that Conduktor's
       | more enterprisey features are in this area now.
        
         | Bogdanp wrote:
         | > Having to debug Kafka issues on topics with almost any volume
         | of data is slow and frustrating, either with a GUI or command
         | line/REPL tools.
         | 
         | Agreed. The scripting feature in Franz is born out of my
         | frustration with some of this stuff and seems like a promising
         | route for quickly visualizing and interacting with what's
         | happening on a topic (though it's early days and I've got lots
         | of work to do until it becomes truly useful).
        
       | jitl wrote:
       | Looks great - beats the dependable but obscure CLI tools I've
       | been using. Are you considering selling the app? If not, what
       | about open sourcing it?
        
         | Bogdanp wrote:
         | Thanks! Yes, I plan to eventually sell it. I'm debating with
         | myself between doing a shareware model where it's perpetually
         | free with the occasional nudges to buy a license or a more
         | straight forward trial plus $30-50 license. Probably the latter
         | would be more sustainable.
        
           | O_H_E wrote:
           | FWIW I don't think the macOS + Kafka (professional) userbase
           | needs the shareware model. (I'm in neither groups)
        
           | jitl wrote:
           | Perpetual nag, my employer will probably never purchase. Time
           | limited trail? We may purchase 20-30 keys.
        
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