Integration of Kafka with EMC smarts

[Daley Okuwa]

1. Kafka
1. Gain a good overall understanding of Kafka, how it fits together and what the components are.  Not from an implementation and administration perspective, we have another team that does that, just from a conceptual level.
2. Look at how data is published and subscribed from Kafka topics.
3. Look at how Smart Assurance MnR Kafka adapter works, what data structure it expects etc.
4. Have a look at https://protobuf.dev/ and see how this could be useful in normalizing data that we push through Kafka.
2. Smarts.

1. Look at ways of performing real-time discoveries in Smarts as opposed to batched discoveries.
2. Look at ways of feeding changes, e.g. devices to be discovered, devices to be deleted etc in real time e.g. through Kafka.
3. Look at publishing events from a Smarts Notification List into Kafka