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Alexis Souquiere

IT Expert on software development for manufacturing. Maintainer of the tchiotludo/akhq project, creator of michelin/kafkagen

Kafkagen: testing your Kafka clients made simple

Kafkagen: testing your Kafka clients made simple

If you ever: * used kcat, the kafka-console-producer or any other third-party CLI to produce Kafka messages, * developed a custom Kafka producer for you or your team to ease testing your Kafka client, * used any Kafka GUI like AKHQ, Kafbat and already produced messages with it, * struggled as a software engineer,

Kafka connectors migration feat. Kestra

Kafka connectors migration feat. Kestra

As described in our previous articles, we are leveraging Kafka widely at Michelin. Each factory in the group hosts its own Kafka cluster, representing 60+ clusters, to be able to work in complete autonomy. Another cluster, a Confluent Cloud cluster, serves the central needs. When topics need to be replicated

Michelin loves Open Source Software and we can prove it - Part 2

Michelin loves Open Source Software and we can prove it - Part 2

I began my software developer journey 10 years ago. From the beginning and still today, open-source has been an integral part of my work. Yet, it was only as consumer, and I never completely embraced the model because I never contributed to any projects. In this post, retrospective of the