.. _kafka_clients:

Kafka Clients
=============

This section discusses the Kafka clients included with the Confluent
Platform including clients for Java,
`C/C++ <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka>`_,
`Python <https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python>`_,
and `Go <https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go>`_.

Advanced use cases for librdkafka are documented in the `librdkafka wiki <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/wiki>`_.

.. tip::

  You may also want to take a look at :ref:`Kafka Streams <kafka_streams>`,
  which is a powerful, easy-to-use library for building highly scalable,
  fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing applications on top of Kafka.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   consumer
   producer
   kafka-jms-client/docs/index
   apidocs