Playing around with MQTT and Java with Moquette and Eclipse Paho

The MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol (MQTT) is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol developed in 1999 that experiences a growing popularity due to trends like the Internet-of-Things and the need to exchange information between low powered devices with aspects as CPU and bandwidth usage in mind. In the following tutorial I’d like to demonstrate how to set-up a broker for this protocol with the help of the Moquette library and how to create a client and publish messages for a specific topic using this broker and Eclipse Paho as client library. ...

June 1, 2016 · 4 min · 784 words · Micha Kops

Kafka Snippets

Start an Image with kcat / kafka-cat for Debugging kubectl -n NAMESPACE run "$(whoami)-debug" -it --rm \ --image=confluentinc/cp-kafkacat:6.1.9 \ --restart=Never \ -- bash Dockerfile for Kafka Analysis Container with different Tools With jq, kafka console tools, schema registry tools and kafkacat installed …​. Dockerfile FROM confluentinc/cp-kafka:6.2.1 as cp-kafka FROM confluentinc/cp-schema-registry:6.2.1 as cp-schema-registry FROM debian:10-slim ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive # Install necessary tools RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \ curl \ jq \ yq \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Install kafkacat binary RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y kafkacat && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # Copy Kafka binaries COPY --from=cp-kafka /usr/bin/kafka-* /usr/bin/ COPY --from=cp-schema-registry /usr/bin/schema-registry* /usr/bin/ # Copy entrypoint script COPY entrypoint.sh /usr/bin/entrypoint.sh RUN chmod +x /usr/bin/entrypoint.sh ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/entrypoint.sh"] ...

March 1, 2010 · 7 min · 1333 words · Micha Kops