Kafka Connect Improvements in Apache Kafka 2.3
With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.3 and Confluent Platform 5.3 came several substantial improvements to the already awesome Kafka Connect. Not sure what Kafka Connect is or need convincing […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3
It’s official: Apache Kafka® 2.3 has been released! Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and important features we added in the new release. Core Kafka KIP-351 […]
Apache Kafka Data Access Semantics: Consumers and Membership
Every developer who uses Apache Kafka® has used a Kafka consumer at least once. Although it is the simplest way to subscribe to and access events from Kafka, behind the […]
Putting Events in Their Place with Dynamic Routing
Event-driven architecture means just that: It’s all about the events. In a microservices architecture, events drive microservice actions. No event, no shoes, no service. In the most basic scenario, microservices […]
Kafka Streams’ Take on Watermarks and Triggers
Back in May 2017, we laid out why we believe that Kafka Streams is better off without a concept of watermarks or triggers, and instead opts for a continuous refinement […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | October 2016
This month the community has been focused on the upcoming release of Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0. Led by the fearless release manager, Jason Gustafson, we voted on a release plan, cut […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | September 2016
It is September and it’s evident that everyone is back from their summer vacation! We released Apache Kafka 0.10.0.1 which includes fixes of the bugs in the 0.10.0 release. In […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | July 2016
Here comes the July 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Want to share some exciting news on this […]