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Kowl vs rdkafka: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kowl as "An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX". It is a web application that helps you to explore messages in your Apache Kafka cluster and get better insights on what is actually happening in your Kafka cluster in the most comfortable way. On the other hand, rdkafka is detailed as "Modern and performant Kafka client library for Ruby". This gem is a modern Kafka client library for Ruby based on librdkafka. It wraps the production-ready C client using the ffi gem and targets Kafka 1.0+ and Ruby 2.3+.

Kowl and rdkafka belong to "Kafka Tools" category of the tech stack.

rdkafka is an open source tool with 128 GitHub stars and 37 GitHub forks. Here's a link to rdkafka's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Kowl?

It is a web application that helps you to explore messages in your Apache Kafka cluster and get better insights on what is actually happening in your Kafka cluster in the most comfortable way.

What is rdkafka?

This gem is a modern Kafka client library for Ruby based on librdkafka. It wraps the production-ready C client using the ffi gem and targets Kafka 1.0+ and Ruby 2.3+.

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MongoDB

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Redis

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