What the IBM Confluent acquisition means for Kafka users | Factor House IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition raises questions for Kafka users. Assess your lock-in risk across Schema Registry, managed connectors, and operational tooling.

What the IBM Confluent acquisition means for Kafka users

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factorhouse.io/articles/wha...

Deep Dive into Kafka Offset Commit with Spring Boot - Piotr's TechBlog This article uses straightforward Spring Boot examples to illustrate how your application can inadvertently lose messages or process them twice due to the Kafka offset commit mechanism. It builds upon...

Deep Dive into Kafka Offset Commit with Spring Boot

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piotrminkowski.com/2026/03/27/d...

Outbox Pattern with Kafka and Hexagonal Architecture in Spring Boot When building microservices, one of the most common consistency problems is this: what happens if...

Outbox Pattern with Kafka and Hexagonal Architecture in Spring Boot

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dev.to/allan_robert...

A very nice tool from Tom Cooper for tracking KIPs and FLIPs.

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ossip.dev

Processing JSON with Kafka Connect In this post, I'll share examples of how to process JSON data in a Kafka Connect pipeline, and explain the schema format that Kafka uses to describe JSON events.  Using sink connectors Kafka Connect...

How to process JSON data in a Kafka Connect pipeline, and explain the schema format that Kafka uses to describe JSON events.

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dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5857

Say Goodbye to ZooKeeper Automated, Zero-Downtime KRaft Migrations Now Available on Aiven

Say Goodbye to ZooKeeper

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aiven.io/blog/say-goo...

Meet Tansu - an #opensource, Kafka-compatible broker that’s stateless, leaderless, and scales to zero.

• Pluggable storage: S3, SQLite, Postgres
• Broker-side schema validation
• Direct writes to Iceberg & Delta Lake

Built in #RustLang, - 20MB RAM, ~10ms startup

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Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0-M2, 4.0.4, and 3.3.14 Available Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0-M2, 4.0.4, and 3.3.14 Available

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spring.io/blog/2026/03...

Kafka Isn’t a Database, But We Gave It a Query Engine Anyway With WarpStream Events, there is no more wrangling multiple tools. Get built-in observability without any additional infrastructure.

Kafka Isn’t a Database, But We Gave It a Query Engine Anyway

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www.warpstream.com/blog/warpstr...

Success in the CCDAK Exam begins with the right strategy and mindset.

If you're aiming to become a certified Apache Kafka developer, these preparation tips can help you:
✔ Improve focus
✔ Reduce exam stress
✔ Increase success rate

www.vmexam.com/blog/ccdak-e...

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Automate test and failure analysis via streams for Apache Kafka | Red Hat Developer Explore an automated, event-driven solution using streams for Apache Kafka, Debezium CDC, and Quarkus with SmallRye Reactive Messaging to sync failure analysis

Automate test and failure analysis via streams for Apache Kafka

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IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents IBM and Confluent deliver a smart data platform that gives every AI model, agent, and automated workflow the real-time, trusted data needed to operate across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments ...

IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents

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newsroom.ibm.com/2026-03-17-i...

How to Set Up a Kafka Cluster with KRaft Architecture (Step-by-Step) ZooKeeper is deprecated and on its way out. Learn how to spin up a 3-node Kafka KRaft cluster using Docker Compose — no Java installs, no systemd units, no external dependencies.

How to Set Up a Kafka Cluster with KRaft Architecture (Step-by-Step)

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dataverses.io/resources/bl...

Dead Letter Topic #01 Story Horse?

Dead Letter Topic #01

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Interesting resources from the broader event streaming and real-time data ecosystem.

topicigor.substack.com/p/dead-lette...

Kafka, Disk, Tiered Storage — and the Rise of Diskless Streaming Architectures Understanding Kafka’s evolution beyond its original architecture

Kafka, Disk, Tiered Storage — and the Rise of Diskless Streaming

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medium.com/@abhaysoni.d...

Confluent + IBM promises real-time data nirvana, but early adopters are hitting major roadblocks. Is the cost and vendor lock-in worth it? Dive into the hidden challenges.

#confluent #apachekafka #realtimedata

Kafka vs Flink vs Spark Streaming: What Nobody Tells You Before You Pick One You’re comparing three things that aren’t the same thing. That’s the first problem. Kafka is a messaging backbone. Flink is a stream…

Kafka vs Flink vs Spark Streaming: What Nobody Tells You Before You Pick One

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#apachespark

alper-korukcu.medium.com/kafka-vs-fli...

What the Heck is Apache Iggy?

Apache Kafka has gotten rather long in the tooth, is Apache Iggy the successor? #apachekafka

From Batch to Real‑Time: Mastering Event‑Driven Architectures with Apache Kafka Introduction For decades, enterprises have relied on batch jobs to move, transform, and analyze data. Nightly ETL pipelines, scheduled reports, and periodic data warehouses have been the backbone of d...

From Batch to Real‑Time: Mastering Event‑Driven Architectures with Apache Kafka

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martinuke0.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Visual Guide to Apache Kafka Diskless Topics & Cloud Costs Explore the new Apache Kafka Diskless Topics proposal. Learn about the architecture and how it reduces cloud costs by eliminating cross-AZ traffic.

Visual Guide to Apache Kafka Diskless Topics & Cloud Costs

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www.instaclustr.com/blog/visual-...

Happy #piday !!!

Estimating Pi with Kafka Streams

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fredrikmeyer.net/2024/05/06/e...

Announcing Inkless clusters: Cloud Kafka Done Right | Aiven Boost Kafka performance with Inkless clusters. Experience 90% faster recovery, 10x faster scaling, and diskless topics for infinite, low-latency data streaming.

Announcing Inkless clusters: Cloud Kafka done right

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aiven.io/blog/announc...

Spring Messaging Legend: Soby Chacko Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk with the legendary Soby Chacko about Apache Kafka, Spring AI, and much more! #apachekafka #kafka

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk with the legendary Soby Chacko about Apache Kafka, Spring AI, and much more! #apachekafka #kafka

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-rx2jy-1a6c3bf

Is your Kafka lag dashboard lying? Learn how log compaction and retention silently manipulate reported timestamps and how to ensure your monitoring reflects actual system performance.
softwaremill.com/compaction-a...

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KPipe: A Modern, High-Performance Kafka Consumer in Java — Powered by Java 25 Features Howdy! If you’re building Kafka-based systems in Java and dealing with high-throughput pipelines, you’ve probably faced the usual pain points:Thanks for reading!

KPipe: A Modern, High-Performance Kafka Consumer in Java — Powered by Java 25 Features

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Event-Driven Architecture in Java and Kafka Reactive Java is well suited to modern streaming, event driven applications. In this article, we'll walk through an example of such an application using Reactive Java with MongoDB. Specifically, we're...

Event-Driven Architecture in Java and Kafka

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A nice walk through in an application using Reactive Java with MongoDB.

foojay.io/today/event-...

Designing Trade Pipelines with Event-Driven Architecture and Apache Kafka in Financial Services

Building scalable trade processing pipelines with event-driven architecture and Apache Kafka. #apachekafka

How KIP-881 and KIP-392 reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka Data transfer costs are the killer behind your massive Kafka bills in the cloud. Learn how to slash 50% of them with little effort by either assigning partitions in a rack-aware wad or enabling FFF

How KIP-881 and KIP-392 reduce Inter-AZ Networking Costs in Classic Kafka

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getkafkanated.substack.com/p/how-kip-88...

GitHub - eschizoid/kpipe Contribute to eschizoid/kpipe development by creating an account on GitHub.

A modern, functional, and high-performance Kafka consumer built using Java 24 features like virtual threads, composable message processors, and DslJson for JSON processing.

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github.com/eschizoid/kp...

Kroxylicious is the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®.

See how it works in 3 minutes:
youtu.be/xLOjKScpJ3Q

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