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accolon/kara
============

Library management of Queue with Kafka

1.1.0(5y ago)010MITPHP

Since Jul 7Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Kara
====

[](#kara)

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

```
composer require accolon/kara
```

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

### Producers

[](#producers)

```
// TestProducer.php
use Kara\Producer;
use Kara\Serialize;

class TestProducer extends Producer
{
    protected string $topic = "test";
    // Types: JSON, PHP, TEXT
    protected int $type = Serialize::JSON;
}

$producer = new TestProducer();
$producer->send([
    "message" => "Hello!"
]);
```

### Consumers

[](#consumers)

```
// TestConsumer.php
use Kara\Consumer;
use Kara\Message;

class TestConsumer extends Consumer
{
    protected string $topic = "test";

    public function handle(Message $message)
    {
        echo "Topic: {$this->topic} -> " . $message->payload . "\n";
    }
}
```

### Manager Consumer

[](#manager-consumer)

```
// index.php
use Kara\ManagerConsumer;

$manager = new ManagerConsumer();

$manager->addConsumer(new TestConsumer());

$manager->run();
```

### Run

[](#run)

Run consumers

```
php index.php
```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

2186d ago

Major Versions

0.1.0 → 1.0.02020-07-07

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49847570?v=4)[João Victor Rocha Cavalcanti](/maintainers/jvrcavalcanti)[@jvrcavalcanti](https://github.com/jvrcavalcanti)

---

Top Contributors

[![jvrcavalcanti](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/49847570?v=4)](https://github.com/jvrcavalcanti "jvrcavalcanti (7 commits)")

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