The Internet of Things (IoT) is getting more and more traction as valuable use cases come to light. A key challenge, however, is integrating devices and machines to process the data in real-time and at scale. Apache Kafka ® and its surrounding ecosystem, which includes Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and KSQL, have become the technology of choice for integrating and processing these kinds of datasets.
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Kafka-native options to note for MQTT integration beyond Kafka client APIs like Java, Python, .NET, and C/C++ are: