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I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.8.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.8.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights

Soon, Apache Kafka® will no longer need ZooKeeper! With KIP-500, Kafka will include its own built-in consensus layer, removing the ZooKeeper dependency altogether. The next big milestone in this effort

As described in the blog post Apache Kafka® Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency, when KIP-500 lands next year, Apache Kafka will replace its usage of Apache ZooKeeper

This blog post talks about the recent improvements on exactly-once semantics (EOS) to make it simpler to use and more resilient. EOS was first released in Apache Kafka® 0.11 and

What is stopping you from using Kafka Streams as your data layer for building applications? After all, it comes with fast, embedded RocksDB storage, takes care of redundancy for you,

Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a

Everyone wants their infrastructure to be highly available, and ksqlDB is no different. But crucial properties like high availability don’t come without a thoughtful, rigorous design. We thought hard about

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress

Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services  are so popular right now— companies realize

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements