Broker-less simulation and mocking for Kafka
Simple configuration and mocking of Kafka clients. Contribute to obsidiandynamics/jackdaw development by creating an account on GitHub.
Broker-less simulation and mocking for Kafka launched on November 30, 2019 with 36 votes, #693 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
This is a testing tool that simulates Apache Kafka without requiring a message broker, allowing developers to test Kafka-based applications in isolation. It provides mocking capabilities for Kafka interactions, making it useful for unit and integration testing. The tool is designed for software developers building applications that depend on Kafka messaging. It has been available since 2019 and is hosted on GitHub as an open-source project.
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