Topic archive
Kafka
Kafka architecture, consumer strategies, and event driven design.
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Implementing Kafka Tiered Storage for Cost-Effective Long-Term Data Retention
Discover a practical guide to Kafka tiered storage for scalable, affordable long-term data retention leveraging cloud object storage.

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Kafka Consumer Groups Under Failure: What a Killed Consumer Costs with Range, Sticky, Cooperative and KIP-848 Assignment, Measured on Kafka 4.3.1
Three consumers, 48,000 records, one SIGKILL: 44 duplicates with RangeAssignor, 46 with StickyAssignor, 19 with CooperativeStickyAssignor, 15 with the KIP-848 protocol, and 0 with a graceful close. Why committing in onPartitionsRevoked never runs for a crash, and where the assignor lives now.

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Optimizing Kafka Producer Performance for High-Throughput Microservices
This guide provides backend engineers and DevOps a step-by-step Java example and comprehensive best practices to optimize Kafka producers for high throughput, balanced latency, and durability.

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Implementing Kafka Connect for Streamlined Integration with Databases and Data Lakes
Discover how Kafka Connect enables streamlined real-time data integration from databases to data lakes, optimizing your data pipeline with best practices and code samples.

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Implementing Kafka Streams for Real-Time Data Processing with Fault Tolerance
Implement fault-tolerant Kafka Streams applications for real-time data processing using state stores, changelog topics, and exactly-once semantics.

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Implementing Kafka Exactly-Once Semantics with Transactional Producers and Consumers
A comprehensive guide to Kafka exactly-once semantics with transactional producers and consumers for reliable, duplicate-free data processing.
