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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018

Quick ’n Easy Population of Realistic Test Data into Kafka

tl;dr Use curl to pull data from the Mockaroo REST endpoint, and pipe it into kafkacat, thus:

curl -s "https://api.mockaroo.com/api/d5a195e0?count=2&key=ff7856d0"| \
kafkacat -b localhost:9092 -t purchases -P

Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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