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There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897 Load balancing and scheduling are at the heart of every distributed system, and

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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