# How we built a production Kafka connector for ClickHouse®

DevFeed: [How we built a production Kafka connector for ClickHouse®](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-built-a-production-kafka-connector-for-clickhouse-18441.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/clickhouse-kafka-connector>)

Author: Alberto Romeu, Jordi Vilaseca

Published: 2026-01-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-excellence.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [operational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes how the publisher built a production Kafka connector for ClickHouse, presenting it as scalable and reliable, capable of processing billions of events with minimal operational overhead.

## Source excerpt

How we built a scalable, reliable Kafka connector that processes billions of events with minimal operational overhead