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name: "Apache Kafka Stream Transformer"
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description: "Processes real-time event streams using KafkaJS consumer groups and transforms messages with configurable schemas. Handles partition rebalancing, offset commits, and dead-letter queue routing for failed transformations."
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# Apache Kafka Stream Transformer

Processes real-time event streams using KafkaJS consumer groups and transforms messages with configurable schemas. Handles partition rebalancing, offset commits, and dead-letter queue routing for failed transformations.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker run -p 9092:9092 apache/kafka:latest

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Using docker image:
- See [docker/README.md](docker/README.md) for detailed information.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ### Build a JAR and run it
- ### Run unit/integration tests
- ./gradlew test -Pkafka.test.run.flaky=true # runs tests that are marked as flaky

- Source: https://github.com/apache/kafka
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/kafka/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/

## Source

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