Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Uber's new publicly available RPC Kafka repository
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies. uForwarder aims to address several pain points while using Apache Kafka for pub-sub message queueing at scale, including partition scalability and head-of-line blocking. - uber/uForwarder
Uber released a publicly available Kafka repository for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) functionality. The tool is designed for developers who need to implement RPC communication using Kafka as a messaging backbone. It… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management. Contribute to provectus/kafka-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await
2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →
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Kafka 0.8.0 broker implementation on top of Cloudflare Workers - maxwellpeterson/kafka-worker
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🦭 Distributed log streaming engine built from first principles - nubskr/walrus
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Diskless Kafka® on S3. 10x Cost-Effective. No Cross-AZ Traffic Cost. Autoscale in seconds. Single-digit ms latency. Multi-AZ Availability. - AutoMQ/automq
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I'm super excited to announce the release of a new UI for Apache Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda and Kinesis that focuses on Teams and Data Mesh. (Note: the desktop version is also very popular with individual developers!) Why is this important? Because providing a solution that can be used by both IT and business (non-technical) users is essential when building applications that process business data. Of course, we are mainly developers working on Kadeck. So you won't miss any of the features you need to troubleshoot and monitor Kafka and your applications. In fact, we have put a lot…
2023 · kadeck.com · its alternatives →
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Rapidly simulate production traffic to your backend
2023 · shadowtraffic.io · its alternatives →
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A realtime server for the modern web
2016 · deepstream.io · its alternatives →
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Kafka-based Job Queue for Python. Contribute to joowani/kq development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Goka is a compact yet powerful distributed stream processing library for Apache Kafka written in Go. - lovoo/goka
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've built this to make it easy to host your own infra for lightweight VMs at large scale. Intended for exec of AI-generated code, for CICD runners, or for off-chain AI DApps. Mainly to avoid Docker-in-Docker dangers and mess. Super easy to use with CLI / Python SDK, friendly to AI engs who usually don't like to mess with VM orchestration and networking too much. Defense-in-depth philosophy. Would love to get feedback (and contributors: clear & exciting roadmap!), thx
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kreya▲90Hi HN! For over a year we've been working on Kreya. At first, it only supported gRPC, because the alternative tools (eg. BloomRPC) were very limited in their functionality. Since then, we have added many features, trying hard to keep the UI clean while still supporting advanced use cases. Yesterday, we released Kreya v1.8, which added support for REST! In our opinion, Kreya is a good alternative to the existing tools out there. Sure, it may not support all the features that Postman has. But we think that Kreya has some innovative approaches (eg. authentication or API importers) that users…
2023 · kreya.app · its alternatives →
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Redpanda Console is a developer-friendly UI for managing your Kafka/Redpanda workloads. Console gives you a simple, interactive approach for gaining visibility into your topics, masking data, managing consumer groups, and exploring real-time data with time-travel debugging. - redpanda-data/console
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Next-gen massive data integration framework
2022 · seatunnel.apache.org · its alternatives →
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Simple configuration and mocking of Kafka clients. Contribute to obsidiandynamics/jackdaw development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · alooma.com · its alternatives →
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In 2023, AWS announced[1] IAM authentication for MSK Kafka clusters with support for "all programming languages"… except C++. While Java[2], Python[3], Go[4], and others got official SDKs, C++ developers/vendors were stuck hardcoding SCRAM-SHA credentials in code/configs or relying on heavier Java-based tools like Kafka Connect or Apache Flink. Later, community projects added Rust[5] and Ruby[6] support. Why no C++? Rust might be the new favorite, but C++ is still king for high-performance data systems: minimal dependencies, lean resource use, and raw speed. At Timeplus, we needed…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is the source code to Franz, a native desktop client for Apache Kafka I've been working on for the past ~three years or so. Around 2021, I started using Kafka at a startup and I didn't like any of the clients that were available at the time, so I decided to build my own in my spare time[1]. I wanted a solid native experience on the Mac that wasn't web based and didn't require any Docker containers to run. A few months ago, I decided to make the code source-available[2] in part because I like the idea of my users being able to see the code they're running and in part because I want to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source, versatile, fast and lightweight UI for Kafka
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Setting up Kafka or such enterprise oriented software with their clusters or dedicated servers is heavy and bothering enough that most small teams or indie hackers skip it entirely and making compromise to use in-memory queues. I wanted something in between: a persistent queue that is simple to run (one binary, which makes one sqlite db), gets real fault isolation and crash recovery due to Elixir, easy to inspect (open ezra.db in any SQLite browser and see every task), and requires no new client library - it speaks the Redis Streams wire protocol, so any Redis client in any language just…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AxonOps▲8Apache Cassandra® & Kafka® monitoring and management
2024 · axonops.com · its alternatives →
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I think agents should work like real teams, with independent, distinct roles, async communication, and the ability to onboard new teammates or tools without restructuring the whole org. I built backend systems at Yahoo and TikTok so event-driven agents felt obvious. But no agent SDKs were using this pattern, so I made Calfkit. Calfkit breaks down agents into independent services (LLM inference, tools, and routing) that communicate asynchronously through Kafka. Agents, tool services, and downstream consumers can be deployed, added-to, removed, and scaled independently. Check it out if this…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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