user-sh - Uses Kafka and expressed interest in trying that. They use Avro encoding.
user-bz - Asked about Kafka. Mentioned that Solace is popular
user-sm - Kafka interest.

We want to support real-time financial data sources

• Kafka
• ZeroMQ
• RabbitMQ
• Websockets
• ION marketview?
• Solace?

Steps:

• Finding an engaged user
• Engaging with the vendor
• Outlining the use-case.
• Coding - Inlcuding unit/integration tests
• Handling the different data types or with kafka data formats
• Handling the error cases
• Deploy to engaged user and get feedback
• Broadcasting to community and working with vendor to iron out issues.
• Documenting the connector (preferably including video)
• Writing up a blog article
• Possibly adding a specific tutorial ontop of connector docs