Event Streaming Articles

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11/3/2025 • EN

"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful

Argues against the common advice to replace Kafka with Postgres, explaining they are different tools for different problems.

Event Streaming Kafka Message Queue postgres Rdbm

Gunnar Morling

4/24/2025 • EN

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?

Explores reimagining Apache Kafka for the cloud, proposing a diskless, partition-free design with key-centric streams and topic hierarchies.

Apache Kafka Cloud Native Data Architecture Event Streaming Object Storage

Gunnar Morling

11/14/2023 • EN

Can Debezium Lose Events?

Explores whether Debezium can lose database change events, explaining its at-least-once semantics and operational pitfalls like log retention.

change data capture Data Engineering Debezium Event Streaming Transaction Log

Gunnar Morling

1/29/2020 • EN

Monitoring REST APIs with Custom JDK Flight Recorder Events

Explains how to use custom JDK Flight Recorder events to monitor REST API performance, including request counts and durations, with Java 14+ streaming.

Event Streaming Java Jdk Flight Recorder performance monitoring REST API Monitoring

Gunnar Morling

Event Streaming Articles

"You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful

What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?

Can Debezium Lose Events?

Monitoring REST APIs with Custom JDK Flight Recorder Events

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