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PDF, ZIP and binary files streaming over Kafka with names intact.
PDF, ZIP and binary files streaming over Kafka with names intact.
Day 07 of the WKafka Open-Source Engineering Series.
Don't provision a cloud bucket when all you need is sending small PDFs and ZIPs down your pipeline. WKafka supports format='file' out of the box.
The Pain Points We Faced
Building S3/MinIO upload/download pipelines just to move 500KB report files
Lost original filenames and mime-types when converting files to raw bytes
High latency polling for cl...













