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Announcing Apache Kafka 4.0

Mar 18, 2025

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Announcing Apache Kafka 4.0

see the top 3 features, and some trivia around other major releases

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Kafka Acks & Min Insync Replicas Explained

Jan 23, 2025

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Kafka Acks & Min Insync Replicas Explained

uncovering the commonly-confused min insync replicas setting

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AWS Networking Costs in 2 Minutes

Jan 17, 2025

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10 min read

AWS Networking Costs in 2 Minutes

the most concise and simple explanation out there

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no one will tell you the real cost of Kafka

Dec 13, 2024

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no one will tell you the real cost of Kafka

is kafka really that expensive?

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KIP-392: Fetch From Follower

Nov 23, 2024

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KIP-392: Fetch From Follower

why enabling this feature can save you 50% of your Apache Kafka's deployment's total cost in the cloud

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The Numbers Behind Uber's Data Infrastructure (The Uber Series Part II)

Aug 13, 2024

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The Numbers Behind Uber's Data Infrastructure (The Uber Series Part II)

what it takes to process 100s of GB/s with competing requirements

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July 2024 Highlights

Aug 3, 2024

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5 min read

July 2024 Highlights

10 interesting posts to keep you busy on the weekend

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the requirements of: Uber's Exabyte-Scale Data Infrastructure (The Uber Series Part I)

Jul 28, 2024

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the requirements of: Uber's Exabyte-Scale Data Infrastructure (The Uber Series Part I)

how 9 open source technologies solve for massive scale that continues to grow exponentially amidst complex, competing requirements

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Apache Kafka Lines of Code Analysis (Java, Scala, Python)

Jan 15, 2024

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Apache Kafka Lines of Code Analysis (Java, Scala, Python)

🔍 an analysis of apache kafka's codebase from versions 0.7.2 to 3.7.0

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mTLS 🤝 Kafka (2 minute kafka)

Dec 28, 2023

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mTLS 🤝 Kafka (2 minute kafka)

3 simple examples of mTLS Kafka security setups in Uber, ZenDesk & Wise

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 KIP-848: The New Kafka Consumer Group Protocol

Nov 27, 2023

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KIP-848: The New Kafka Consumer Group Protocol

a 2-min intro to the complete re-design of consumer groups in Kafka

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Zero Copy Basics

Aug 7, 2023

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6 min read

Zero Copy Basics

0️⃣💾 the most concise explanation of the operating system's zero-copy concept in 2 minutes

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Stochastic Sublinear Streaming Algorithms

Jul 24, 2023

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Stochastic Sublinear Streaming Algorithms

✍️ drawing a sketch is always faster than the full painting

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How Slack uses Apache Kafka

Jul 17, 2023

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How Slack uses Apache Kafka

🐆 a million of messages per second ... and I thought I sent a lot of messages

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🪵 Kafka Log Segments Explained

Jun 16, 2023

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🪵 Kafka Log Segments Explained

topic -> partitions -> replicas -> segments. We dive into the last one.

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KIP-405: Tiered Storage

Jun 9, 2023

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KIP-405: Tiered Storage

🍫in which Kafka goes on a diet to lose a lot of weight (around 10TB+)

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Introduction to Apache Kafka

Jun 2, 2023

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Introduction to Apache Kafka

⏳ the Kafka introduction you wish you had before

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