Handling Large Messages With Apache Kafka

While working on handling large messages with Kafka, I came across a few useful reference articles, bookmarking here for anyone who needs them:

https://dzone.com/articles/processing-large-messages-with-apache-kafka

https://www.morling.dev/blog/single-message-transforms-swiss-army-knife-of-kafka-connect/

https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/08/07/apache-kafka-handling-large-messages-and-files-for-image-video-audio-processing/

https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/connectors/single-message-transforms.html#cc-single-message-transforms-limitations