Thank you for the response, Chia-Ping Tsai.
The sl4j and System.Logger APIs are very similar and lightweight. Is
there any particular API or functionality missing from System.Logger?
Yes, all logging libraries/providers support System.Logger.
Libraries like log4j2, which is what Kafka defaults t
Why not use the System.Logger logging facade built-into JDK9+ instead
of the third party SLF4J alternative? System.Logger seems the simpler
option. I understand that when the Kafka project was supporting Java
8, System.Logger was not an option, but now the Kafka project requires
JDK 11+.
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If Kafka 4.0 is Java 11+, why would you use SLF4J instead of the Java
9+ logging facade System.Logger?
With the Kafka Connect S3 sink, I can choose Avro or JSON output format. Is
there any chance that Parquet will be supported?
For record at a time processing, Parquet isn't a good fit. But for
reading/writing batches of records, which is what the Kafka Connect Sink is
writing, Parquet is generally
