A monthly tech link roundup focusing on Kafka, event streaming, and data engineering, including personal news about company acquisitions.
Argues against the common advice to replace Kafka with Postgres, explaining they are different tools for different problems.
Explores reimagining Apache Kafka as a cloud-native event log, proposing features like partitionless design, key-centric access, and topic hierarchies.
Explores reimagining Apache Kafka for the cloud, proposing a diskless, partition-free design with key-centric streams and topic hierarchies.
Explores whether Debezium can lose database change events, explaining its at-least-once semantics and operational pitfalls like log retention.
Explores whether the Debezium change data capture tool can lose database events, discussing its at-least-once semantics and operational pitfalls.
An overview of Apache Kafka, explaining its core concepts as a distributed event streaming platform for real-time data pipelines.
A guide for security professionals to understand Apache Kafka basics and its security features within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Explains how to use custom JDK Flight Recorder events to monitor REST API performance, including request counts and durations, with Java 14+ streaming.
