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 Confluent Commons
 =================
 
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 Contains 3 libraries: [metrics](metrics), [config](config), [utils](utils).
 
 
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 ## Overview
 
 Typically you will run standard maven commands such as `mvn install` from the top-level directory (i.e. the directory
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     $ mvn -pl :common-metrics package
 
 
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 ## Config
 
 To build the `config` sub-project independently, run this from the parent directory:
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 ## License
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