Explores reimagining Apache Kafka for the cloud, proposing a diskless, partition-free design with key-centric streams and topic hierarchies.
A guide to building a native Apache Kafka binary on macOS using GraalVM for faster startup times, based on the official KIP-974 configuration.
Explores KIP-932, a proposal to add queue semantics and share groups to Apache Kafka for improved message processing.
A software engineer explains their decision to join Decodable, a startup building a serverless real-time data platform, focusing on stream processing.
A guide to testing custom Kafka Connect source connectors, covering unit and integration testing strategies with code examples.
A recap of 2021 conference talks on Debezium and Change Data Capture (CDC), exploring patterns and integrations with tools like Kafka and Infinispan.
An analysis of key trends in the Apache Kafka ecosystem, including connector growth, self-service data pipelines, and stream processing adoption.
An overview of Kafka's new KRaft mode, which removes the ZooKeeper dependency for metadata management and controller election.
