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Building a Native Binary for Apache Kafka on macOS - Gunnar Morling

#kafka #macos | With help of the GraalVM configuration developed for KIP-974 (Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker), you can easily build a self-contained native binary for Apache Kafka. Read on to learn how you can build a native Kafka executable yourself, starting in milli-seconds, making it a perfect fit for development and testing purposes. When I wrote about ahead-of-time class loading and linking in Java 24 recently, I also published the start-up time for Apache Kafka as a native binary for comparison. This was done via Docker, as there’s no pre-built native binary of Kafka available for the operating system I’m running on, macOS. But there is a native Kafka container image, so this is what I chose for the sake of convenience. Now, running in a container adds a little bit of overhead of course, so it wasn’t a surprise when Thomas Würthinger, lead of the GraalVM project at Oracle, brought up the question what the value would be when running Kafka natively on macOS. Needless to say I can’t leave this kind of nice nerd snipe pass, so I set out to learn how to build a native Kafka binary on macOS, using GraalVM.

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