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What is Kafka last-mile integration?
Kafka, while powerful, isn’t designed for direct internet access—particularly when it comes to the “last mile,” the critical network segment that extends beyond enterprise boundaries and edges (LAN or WAN) to reach end users. Last-mile integration is essential for delivering real-time Kafka data to mobile, web, and desktop applications, addressing challenges that go beyond Kafka’s typical scope, such as:
- Disruptions from corporate firewalls and client-side proxies blocking Kafka connections.
- Performance issues due to unpredictable internet bandwidth, including packet loss and disconnections.
- User interfaces struggling with large data volumes.
- The need for scalable solutions capable of supporting millions of concurrent users.
Why choose the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector?
The Lightstreamer Kafka Connector serves as an intelligent proxy, seamlessly bridging Kafka with the internet. Powered by Lightstreamer technology—the world’s leading last-mile data delivery platform—it streams data in real-time to your applications over WebSockets, eliminating the need for polling a REST proxy and surpassing the limitations of MQTT proxies. With features like Intelligent Streaming, the Lightstreamer Kafka Connector effortlessly extends your Kafka topics to web, mobile, and desktop platforms. Fully reliable, with no compromises.
Been a customer for over a decade, and Lightstreamer has been a valuable tool in the tool belt.
Regan Sizer
— Chief Technology Officer, Amherst Pierpont Securities (now Santander)Extend your Kafka broker with Lightstreamer
Enhance your Kafka-based infrastructure by integrating Lightstreamer, bringing real-time data streaming and advanced client management to your applications.
KAFKA CONNECTOR
Effortlessly integrate Lightstreamer with any third-party Kafka broker, whether it’s a managed cloud service or an on-premises deployment.
Lightstreamer connects directly to the Kafka broker using the Kafka Client API. This method is lighter and faster, offering optimal performance.
Kafka ConnectLightstreamer leverages the Kafka Connect framework in this option. While it may be less agile than the Kafka Client API, this approach is advantageous in environments that require standardized integration, or when working with a variety of connectors to stream data between Kafka and external systems.
METADATA ADAPTER
Effortlessly extend the default Lightstreamer Metadata Adapter through the provided SDK to integrate your custom initialization, authentication, and authorization processes.
AuthenticationSeamlessly authenticate users using your existing authentication systems.
AuthorizationPrecisely control user access to specific Kafka topics based on your authorization rules.
Connect your frontend to Kafka
Easily integrate real-time capabilities into your applications with Lightstreamer’s flexible client libraries. Whether you’re developing for mobile, web, desktop, or even smartwatch platforms, Lightstreamer enables smooth and efficient streaming of live data directly from your Kafka broker.
CLIENT API
Our comprehensive and flexible client APIs simplify the process of consuming data from Kafka topics within any type of application. They are designed to support a wide range of platforms, technologies, and programming languages, making it easy to integrate Kafka data into your frontends across diverse environments.
PlatformsBLAZING FAST
Optimized data broadcasting
– Financial Apps: Transmitting stock prices to trading apps, where clients may only need updates on specific stocks, groups of stocks, or market indices.
– Telemetry Applications: Streaming real-time telemetry data to dashboards displaying selected metrics.
– Chat Applications: Delivering chat messages to specific client apps based on the active chat room.
In many cases, only a subset of messages needs to reach each client, driven by application logic rather than Kafka’s standard consumer group distribution. The Lightstreamer Kafka Connector addresses this challenge by allowing selective message delivery based on specific keys or fields, overcoming the limitations of Kafka’s partitioning and the complexity of managing numerous topics.
Massive scalability
Load testing tool
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Advanced features for seamless Kafka integration
All the powerful features of Lightstreamer, plus:
No more REST polling
No need for MQTT
Firewall & proxy traversal
Intelligent Streaming
Server-side filtering
Powerful topic mapping
Record evaluation
Schema Registry support
Push notifications
Maximum security
Open source
Lightstreamer: Your ally in business growth
In today’s fast-paced world, real-time data is crucial. Lightstreamer meets this need effortlessly and cost-effectively.