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Quarkus, a “Kubernetes Native Java stack,” enables lighter Java applications with faster startup times. In a recent post, I talked about scaling Kafka consumers in Kubernetes. Quarkus applications fit right into this picture because they […]
Kafka and Kubernetes (K8s) are a great match. Kafka has knobs to optimize throughput and Kubernetes scales to multiply that throughput. On the consumer side, there are a few ways to improve scalability. Resource & […]
There are many things to know before diving into Kafka Streams. If you haven’t already, check out these 5 things as a starting point. Bullet 2 mentions designing for exceptions. Ironically, this seems to be […]
As your team enters the new year fresh off of a “holiday reboot”, broaden your next retrospective to look at the previous year as a whole. What went well? Where did things fall short? What […]
Unless you have been granted the golden ticket to greenfield development, there isn’t a hard and fast approach to migrating to an Event-Driven System. However, there are designs, technologies, best practices and approaches that will […]
The Kafka Streams API has been around since Apache Kafka v0.10 and as the adoption of Kafka booms, so does Kafka Streams. The Streams library enables developers to create distributed processing applications while avoiding most […]
Fending off buzzwords can feel like a full-time job, so having a reliable approach to assessing technologies is a critical piece of an engineer’s toolkit. With the rise of Kafka, more and more companies are […]
When building out applications around a Kafka cluster one of the most critical considerations is how failures are handled. Kafka does a nice job of decoupling systems but there are still many opportunities for things […]
Spring Kafka provides a variety of testing utilities to make writing integration tests easier. Most notably, the @EmbeddedKafka annotation spins up an embedded broker (and zookeeper) available for tests. The address of the broker is set to […]
Kafka Connect is the hub that connects your Kafka cluster to any other system. The framework aims to make it easy to pull data into Kafka as well as copy data out of Kafka. As […]