The Ably Kafka Connector reaches General Availability (with enhanced pattern-based mapping capabilities)

The Ably Kafka Connector has been released in a full general availability version with new enhancements. Developers can now use pattern-based mapping rules for streaming data from multiple Kafka topics to multiple Ably channels, suitable for chat solutions, live sports updates, live streaming, broadcasting notifications and alerts. This feature provides greater flexibility while easing the management of extending Kafka-based pipelines to end users over the public internet. The Ably Kafka Connector is a sink connector that allows publishing messages from Kafka topics to Ably channels, with support for static and pattern-based mapping options. Pattern-based mapping enables mapping multiple Kafka topics directly into any number of Ably channels, ideal for multi-tenanted chat solutions or other use cases requiring streaming data across multiple channels.