Queues for Kafka (KIP-932): The Bridge between Event Streaming and Queuing For years, architects and developers have adopted Apache Kafka as the standard for event streaming and distributed logs, yet continued to…

Queues for Kafka (KIP-932): The Bridge between Event Streaming and Queuing

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Kafka Beyond APIs: 30 Architecture Questions I've Seen Matter in Real Systems

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Proving Your Kafka Prowess: An Analytical Look at CCDAK Master Apache Kafka with the CCDAK exam. Learn what it takes to become a Confluent Certified Developer and boost your expertise in real-time data streaming.

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Look Ma, I made a JAR! (Building a connector for Kafka Connect without knowing Java)

Look Ma, I made a JAR! (Building a connector for Kafka Connect without knowing Java)

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Kafka Has Become the Postgres of Streaming — And That Changes Everything

Kafka has reached commodity status — and that's actually its greatest achievement. Here's what it means for where streaming innovation goes next. #apachekafka

Kafka Backlog #1 Welcome to the first edition of Kafka Backlog, a monthly series here on Topic:Igor where I share articles and pieces I find valuable but never manage to tweet.

Kafka Backlog #1

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Kafka Ecosystem Project Ideas: End-to-End Domain Implementations guide

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

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

Say Goodbye to ZooKeeper

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

• Pluggable storage: S3, SQLite, Postgres
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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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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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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:
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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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Happy #piday !!!

Estimating Pi with Kafka Streams

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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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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

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