Kafka Manager vs WCF: What are the differences?

Kafka Manager: A tool for managing Apache Kafka, developed by Yahoo. This interface makes it easier to identify topics which are unevenly distributed across the cluster or have partition leaders unevenly distributed across the cluster. It supports management of multiple clusters, preferred replica election, replica re-assignment, and topic creation. It is also great for getting a quick bird’s eye view of the cluster; WCF: A runtime and a set of APIs for building connected, service-oriented applications. It is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using this, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application.

Kafka Manager can be classified as a tool in the "Message Queue" category, while WCF is grouped under "Realtime Backend / API".

Kafka Manager is an open source tool with 7.56K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kafka Manager's open source repository on GitHub.

Yahoo!, IgnitionOne, and Ocado Technology are some of the popular companies that use Kafka Manager, whereas WCF is used by Bluebeam Software, Heimdal Security, and KGS Buildings. Kafka Manager has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to WCF, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.