Useful resources for learning to write your own connector plugin for Kafka Connect

[rmoff]

Step 0 is to check Confluent Hub to make sure you’re not writing a connector that exists already! But assuming there isn’t, here are some useful resources the detail how to go about writing your own connector.

Docs

• Guide for Kafka Connector Developers | Confluent Documentation

Conference talks

Building your First Connector for Kafka Connect

"Make Your Connections Count" – A Journey Building Kafka Connectors - Confluent

Lessons Learned Building a Connector Using Kafka Connect - Confluent

Blogs

Kafka Connect - Source Connectors: A detailed guide to connecting to what you...

How to Write a Kafka Connector with Proper Configuration Handling

4 Steps to Creating Apache Kafka Connectors with the Kafka Connect API

[riferrei]

Another option to add to the list is the repo below. It contains a minimalist connector with its main logic to-be-implemented so new developers can catch up fast. It is the code the I have used in the conference talk above

GitHub - riferrei/kafka-source-connector: This repository contains a sample...

[gAmUssA]

I did a talk about custom connectors at swampup 2018
video: swampUP 2018 | Fight Crime with Kafka Streams and Bintray Firehose API - YouTube

code: GitHub - gAmUssA/kafka-connect-bintray: Kafka Connect connector to Binary firehose API