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 & ...
Using Jaeger tracing, I’ve been able to answer an important question that nearly every Apache Kafka project that I’ve worked on posed: how is data flowing through my distributed system? I’ve started writing about this ...
If you are using Apache Kafka, you are almost certainly dealing with many applications that need to work together to accomplish some big picture goal. In other words, you are working within a distributed system. ...
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 ...