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July 2024 Highlights
10 interesting posts to keep you busy on the weekend
Stanislav Kozlovski
August 03, 2024
Table of Contents
The Top 8 Features in Kafka 3.8 You Should Know About 🔥
Apache Kafka 3.8.0 was just released! 🔥
What comes with this new release?
Here are the top features you should know about:
1/9 🧵 (2-minute read)
— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
2:45 PM • Jul 30, 2024
BigDataStream will be a more frequent, more verbose version of this. Akin to my social posts, it’ll contain a lot more information and
I just released a new newsletter!
Here's what it is:
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— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
12:05 PM • Jul 28, 2024
Tweak 1 Config & Get a 4.2x Better Latency 💥
how wild is that? 🔥
Top 5 Outages Similar to CrowdStrike
At one point, July was all about the massive CrowdStrike outage. So I gathered 4 other incidents of similar size (but obviously not as big). Note this isn’t rank-ordered, as some people thought 😝
Everyone is talking about the CrowdStrike incident.
What about other similarly-large outages? How does it compare to them?
See the other top 4 recent internet outages in this infographic 👇
— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
3:03 PM • Jul 21, 2024
The CrowdStrike Outage 🙊
July will definitely be remembered for its blue screen of death.
See a classic 2-minute summary of what CrowdStrike is and what happened. ✌️
The Blue July Crisis.
When one bad production deployment took down MILLIONS of machines in EVERY country across the globe...
Today we experienced the largest global software-inflicted outage.
A world-wide deployment of the CrowdStrike Falcon agent caused massive widespread… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
1:19 PM • Jul 19, 2024
Fancy Some Video? 🎬 120 seconds & 9 tips to manage Kafka
It’s pretty weird to see yourself on video. I wouldn’t recommend it. But I would recommend seeing me in the podcast I starred in.
At the end of it, the host challenged me to give my top tips on how to manage Kafka… in 120 seconds. 🥲
After 6 years of working on the world’s largest Kafka SaaS (1000s of customers) and participating in 100s of incidents, I share my top 9 DEAD-SIMPLE tips to manage large Kafka deployments.
Guaranteed to make you want to buy a Kafka SaaS 🥲 (not joking)
Why?
Because of how hard… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
4:10 PM • Jul 18, 2024
Largest Kafka Deployments
I recently figured out about Uber’s insane Kafka scale… I had to share it:
Ever wondered what some of the world's most outrageous, biggest Apache Kafka looked like?
See this 👇
— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
2:15 PM • Jul 13, 2024
Zero Copy in 1 minute 👌
Why You Need Tiered Storage 💾
Kafka’s Lines of Code for Tests
Do you need tests in your code? 🤔
It's a question that somehow still gets asked in the industry.
Look no further than open-source for an answer.
Apache Kafka consists of 1.2 MILLION lines of code 🔥
And guess how much of that is testing code?
654,000 lines.… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Stanislav Kozlovski (@BdKozlovski)
2:47 PM • Jul 9, 2024
The Last 2minutestreaming Letter - Uber’s Data Infra 😳
Really excited about this one. The next edition is going to share some JUICY numbers. 🔥