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Kafma

@kafmaJoined July 2026

The Kafka IDE. Simplify how you debug Kafka. Close the gap between production and your laptop.

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Kafma is a desktop Kafka IDE designed to keep the consume–inspect–produce loop in one workspace and quickly clone remote topics to your local cluster for testing.

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Confluent.Kafka for .NET in 2026: What Still Works and What to Watch

Confluent.Kafka is Confluent's Kafka client for C# and .NET, and by far the most downloaded one on NuGet. It wraps librdkafka, Confluent's C client, and it is still actively developed: 2.16.0 shipped

Oct 22 · 9 min readkafma.hashnode.dev

kcat (kafkacat) Cheat Sheet: List Topics, Consume, and Produce on Kafka

kcat, formerly kafkacat, is a command-line tool for reading, writing, and inspecting Kafka topics. It is a single C binary built on librdkafka, so it needs no JVM. The topic, consume, and produce comm

Oct 20 · 6 min readkafma.hashnode.dev

node-rdkafka in 2026: What Still Works and What to Watch

node-rdkafka has been a librdkafka binding for Node.js since 2016, and more than 2,500 public repositories still depend on it. If you maintain one of them, or are reading its docs for the first time,

Oct 10 · 4 min readkafma.hashnode.dev

confluent-kafka-python vs. kafka-python vs. aiokafka

Python developers have three established Kafka clients to consider: confluent-kafka-python, kafka-python, and aiokafka. They can all produce and consume Kafka records, but they fit different applicati

Aug 14 · 3 min readkafma.hashnode.dev

A New Kafka Viewer for a Better Debugging Workflow

Kafma is a new Kafka UI client for macOS, Windows, and Linux, built to keep the debugging workflow in one workspace. Each topic opens as a persistent Console tab that keeps its message stream, produce

Aug 6 · 8 min readkafma.hashnode.dev

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Kafma's blogs

Confluent.Kafka for .NET in 2026: What Still Works and What to Watch

kcat (kafkacat) Cheat Sheet: List Topics, Consume, and Produce on Kafka

node-rdkafka in 2026: What Still Works and What to Watch

confluent-kafka-python vs. kafka-python vs. aiokafka

A New Kafka Viewer for a Better Debugging Workflow

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Kafma's blogs

Confluent.Kafka for .NET in 2026: What Still Works and What to Watch

kcat (kafkacat) Cheat Sheet: List Topics, Consume, and Produce on Kafka

node-rdkafka in 2026: What Still Works and What to Watch

confluent-kafka-python vs. kafka-python vs. aiokafka

A New Kafka Viewer for a Better Debugging Workflow