I am still a bit confused with the naming and topology of UMH's components. Bridges are the only way data enters, so is Benthos-UMH involved when a bridge is created? In which case is Redpanda-Connect involved? When i use standalone, does it ever enter the UNS? And what does the UNS consist of? Is UNS the Redpanda Broker or the whole instance? Maybe you can clarify the terms even more and outline the architecture of it a bit more. I know there is docs.umh.app but i struggled to understand it from there

Data can enter using standalones as well. Whenever you output something to the uns output it will land in redpanda. The UNS is not a specific software or protocol, it is the complete concept, where data is standardized and unified in one place.. But a really good question. @Marius or @robertschwarz_umh can maybe take a look at this and see if we need to improve our documentation.

Hey Nils! Glad you brought this up! 🙂 We actually had a related conversation internally about this, not too long ago. Our documentation - especially on architecture - used to be a bit more transparent than it is today. While we don't have this as an urgent priority, it's on our list of things to update in

docs.umh.app

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