Redpanda Connect is a lightweight stream processor designed to facilitate the creation of streaming data pipelines using a declarative approach with YAML, offering a streamlined alternative or complement to traditional data engineering tools like enterprise integration frameworks, log aggregators, and ETL engines. Written in Go and deployable as a static binary without external dependencies, it features an extensive ecosystem of over 280 high-performance connectors for diverse use cases, including message format transformation, code execution per message, message mapping and filtering, cache operations, database interactions, and handling message queues. Connectors and processors are central to its functionality; connectors manage data integration between Redpanda and various systems, while processors apply functions to messages for tasks such as transformation or filtering. With support for a wide range of technologies and formats, Redpanda Connect enhances data flow reliability and efficiency, making it a versatile tool for data engineering, stream processing, and enterprise integration.