Allowing developers, data engineers, or any one interested in real-time technologies the ability to explore tools locally is a great advantage. I have heard many stories of developers leaving containers running over the weekend, only to use to many of their free developer credits with a cloud provider. I’ve also seen developers not fully explore various configurations, nuances, or tools fearing they would have to expense unexpected charges.
Insights
Every distribution inspected to extract out specific library versions and key dependencies.
This is helpful when you are tracking an open source security issue, want to know a version of a library to know if a feature is available, or to minimize dependency graph with your own java software that leverages kafka-client
or kafka-streams
libraries.