[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a TUI for kafka (kaskade)
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       Show HN: I made a TUI for kafka (kaskade)
        
       Author : sauljp
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2024-07-14 14:14 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | sauljp wrote:
       | Install it:
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       | brew install kaskade
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       | pipx install kaskade
        
       | 1bent wrote:
       | In case anyone else didn't know:
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
        
         | Huntsecker wrote:
         | genuinely surprised that kafka is something unknown, thought it
         | had gained ubiquitous status similar to k8s but maybe that's me
         | walking into a Baader-Meinhof effect
        
       | cyberpunk wrote:
       | Can it rebalance partitions? And delete crap from topics?
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       | Every time we have to call up our ops guys for this; it's like
       | "deep breath, first utter some indescribable magic aws iam
       | nonsense and somehow get an ephemeral shell on some rando bitnami
       | Kafka image's ./kafka-topic shell scripts to work over the next
       | few hours" and ultimately succeed but with deep regrets
        
         | rockwotj wrote:
         | > delete crap from topics
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         | You have to rewrite the whole topic to do this right? (or do
         | some hacks with compaction if you have unique keys)
        
           | bink wrote:
           | Or just advance the offsets for that partition beyond the
           | problematic data, or adjust retention, or both.
        
       | terminaltrove wrote:
       | We featured kaskade on Terminal Trove as tool of the week and
       | looks really cool and useful.
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       | https://terminaltrove.com/kaskade/
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       | For those interested, kaskade is made with the Textual TUI
       | framework.
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       | https://www.textualize.io/
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       | Thanks for making this sauljp.
        
       | ddoolin wrote:
       | Does it support Protobuf deserialization via Schema Registry?
       | This is basically where every other tool falls apart. Kafka UI
       | just added support very recently but kcat falls apart.
        
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