Confluent - Developer for Apache Kafka Study Guide

4: Kafka Connect

This chapter develops Kafka Connect at practitioner depth for CCDAK, walking source and sink connector semantics, the distributed worker fleet with `tasks.max` and rebalance behavior, converter and Single Message Transform configuration, the REST API surface used to operate connectors, source-offset storage, and the dead-letter queue for tolerated errors. Every section shows the exact JSON connector configuration you post to the REST API and reads it back through the same operational commands you use in production.