KSML v0.8: new features for Kafka Streams in Low Code environments
KSML is a wrapper language for Kafka Streams. It allows for easy specification and running of Kafka Streams applications, without requiring Java programming. It was first released in 2021 and is available as open source under the Apache License v2 on Github. Recently version 0.8.0 was released, which brings a number of interesting improvements. In […]
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The 0.8.0 release brought several enhancements, including syntax validation and code completion through JSON Schema support, improved data type handling, and enhanced state store support. Additionally, it introduced logging functionality via a built-in logging variable, allowing developers to easily output messages to application logs, and made the language more intuitive with readability improvements and type inference.
KSML allows for various message processing scenarios, such as filtering messages based on specific criteria (e.g., color) and converting message formats (e.g., from AVRO to XML). Through declarative definitions, users can create pipelines that specify the input and output topics, data types, and any transformation logic needed, making it straightforward to implement complex data processing tasks without diving into the underlying Java code.
