Table of Contents
The Top 8 Features in Kafka 3.8 You Should Know About 🔥
BigDataStream will be a more frequent, more verbose version of this. Akin to my social posts, it’ll contain a lot more information and
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 😝
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. ✌️
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. 🥲
Largest Kafka Deployments
I recently figured out about Uber’s insane Kafka scale… I had to share it:
Zero Copy in 1 minute 👌
Why You Need Tiered Storage 💾
Kafka’s Lines of Code for Tests
The Last 2minutestreaming Letter - Uber’s Data Infra 😳
Really excited about this one. The next edition is going to share some JUICY numbers. 🔥
