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Devesh Dhannawat, Jai Vignesh R, Nishant Gupta
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1454
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English
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Summary

Confluent offers a suite of self-managed and fully managed connectors that facilitate seamless integration with Apache Kafka, enabling real-time data flow and connectivity across diverse systems and applications. For HTTP API-based use cases, Confluent Cloud provides the no-code, fully managed HTTP Source V2 and HTTP Sink V2 connectors, which can be tailored to cater to diverse data integration requirements. These connectors enable real-time analytics, real-time SaaS app data synchronization, and async microservices communication and workflow automation. The HTTP Source V2 connector allows for real-time ingestion of data from HTTP endpoints into Kafka topics, while the HTTP Sink V2 connector enables real-time delivery of data from Kafka topics to HTTP endpoints. The connectors offer features such as client-side field-level encryption, ability to configure up to 15 APIs with the same hostname and authorization mechanism, and seamless experience to configure using OpenAPI Specification 3.0. Confluent Cloud users leverage these connectors for various use cases, including real-time analytics, real-time SaaS app data synchronization, and async microservices communication and workflow automation. The connectors are designed to be more robust and user-friendly, addressing the specific needs of customers and improving their overall experience with Confluent Cloud.