Company
Date Published
July 11, 2024
Author
Ewen Cheslack-Postava, Lucia Cerchie, Bill Bejeck
Word count
1197
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

This summary highlights a discussion on building a GenAI model with Confluent, Flink, and MongoDB, which uses Apache Kafka as its underlying messaging system. The project aims to settle the debate on tabs vs spaces by creating an app that produces and consumes vote counts from a Kafka topic, utilizing the confluent-kafka-javascript client for seamless integration with Confluent's cloud offering. The code demonstrates how to use the promisified API for consuming events, updating state in the backend, and displaying the results in a user-friendly interface using vanilla JavaScript and CSS. The project showcases opportunities for growth, such as implementing visualizations or fingerprinting users, and provides resources for learning more about Kafka and Confluent-kafka-javascript.