Kafka Connect was mainly introduced in November 2015 in Kafka 0.9.x. In addition to the various features of Kafka 0.9.x, Connect APIs was a brand new feature. Then, in May 2016, the new version Kafka 0.10.0 was released. In that version, Kafka Streams API was a new and exciting feature. But, in March 2017, it was Kafka Version 0.10.2 where Kafka Connect got its real momentum. As a part of Kafka 0.10.2, improved simplified Connect APIs and single message transform APIs were released.
Kafka Connect – a brief history
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