Apr 2, 2026
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12 min read
why IBM acquired Confluent
Dec 30, 2025
9 min read
A year-end review of the streaming ecosystem: acquisitions, existential pivots, and the slow march toward table formats.
Dec 27, 2025
8 min read
Kafka vs Postgres? Here's why you don't need Kafka (all the time)
Sep 19, 2025
13 min read
How Apache Kafka's KRaft consensus protocol works in 2 minutes
Jul 14, 2025
7 min read
a cornerstore of Kafka's replication protocol
Jun 26, 2025
14 min read
KIP-1150 brings 20x cheaper storage and infinitely cheaper data transfer fees
Mar 18, 2025
see the top 3 features, and some trivia around other major releases
Jan 23, 2025
uncovering the commonly-confused min insync replicas setting
Jan 17, 2025
10 min read
the most concise and simple explanation out there
Dec 13, 2024
is kafka really that expensive?
Nov 23, 2024
why enabling this feature can save you 50% of your Apache Kafka's deployment's total cost in the cloud
Aug 13, 2024
what it takes to process 100s of GB/s with competing requirements
