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Last year I was on a team that pushed 40 million events per day through Kafka. We had consumer lag alerts, rebalancing incidents, and a whole runbook …
At Current 2026, I realized that nobody knows exactly what a Kafka proxy can do. Most engineers and architects think it's just some kind of reverse-pr…
A conversation between Uncle (a backend architect) and Nephew (a curious developer) about events, publishers, subscribers, Redis Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, an…
Every team has that Confluence page. The one that was carefully written to explain what the service does, what the API looks like, what each DB column…
If you’ve ever thought, “It’s just a WebSocket event,” this article is for you. Notification systems look simple on the surface, but in production the…
If you're learning data engineering, you'll probably meet Apache Kafka very early. You'll see it in job descriptions, system design diagrams, real-tim…
Over half year ago I’ve open sourced klag, a lightweight Kafka consumer lag exporter. I’ve been working in data streaming systems and data infrastruct…
You probably already know about Strimzi . Strimzi enables Kafka on Kubernetes , simple as that. So, in this post, I will not talk about Strimzi , but …
If your Kafka Docker Compose still has a ZooKeeper service in it, your setup is already legacy. As of Kafka 4.0 (released March 2025), ZooKeeper is go…
When you start building an app, keeping your data consistent is easy. If a user changes something, your code updates the database, and you're done. Bu…
We were at Current 2026 in London two weeks ago. Keynotes about agentic AI and streaming agents but conferences conversations were about something els…
Карьерный рост в IT редко упирается только в «выучить еще один инструмент». Чаще проблема в другом: понять, какие технологии уже стали рабочей практик…
Articles 🔍 Bucket4j + Infinispan: A Deep Dive Into Implementation A code-level walkthrough of running Bucket4j rate limiting on top of embedded Infini…
Apache Kafka's release cadence is fast. A new minor version ships roughly every four months. EOL dates arrive quickly — and because Kafka sits at the …
Which side are you on: "This is just what Kafka costs at scale" or "We should switch to a cheaper Kafka provider"? At Conduktor , our field team works…
Introduction Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra pair effectively because they complement each other's strengths: Kafka handles high throughput, real-ti…
Introduction Ever wondered how banks are able to detect and stop fraud in real-time? This is how they do it. Banks process thousands of transactions e…
This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built I built the SARA Pipeline Control Center —a web-driven graphical orchestra…
A few weeks ago I published an article about an event-driven order pipeline I built in .NET. A CTO named Andrew Tan left a comment pointing out that m…
Apache Kafka is widely recognized as the go-to way system for real-time event streaming. Modern systems across banking, e-commerce, healthcare, gaming…
Most standard data pipelines run on a schedule. You use tools like Airflow and dbt to extract and transform large batches of API data once a day. Howe…
This article serves as a technical follow-up to our KubeCon 2026 coverage, providing a comprehensive deep dive into the architecture and evolution of …
The 2026 Context: From "Testing" to "Triage" In my previous post, I discussed why AV1 is no longer optional for Fire TV Stick 4K Max users. But as we …
Introduction Imagine you are running a massive online store. Every second, hundreds of users are clicking items, adding them to carts and making purch…
Долго думал, в каком формате это написать, в итоге решил по-простому - рассказать, что есть, и кому это может пригодиться. Мы с коллегой делали выпуск…
Introduction In this post, we present an introductory example using Apache Pinot to ingest an Apache Kafka stream. This is an introductory post that b…
Introduction Modern web applications are no longer just simple static websites. Years ago, many websites were mostly: static pages blogs content websi…
A few weeks ago I published an article about an event-driven order pipeline I built in .NET with Kafka and Azure Service Bus. Someone left a comment t…
The Uncomfortable Number We aggregated findings from 50 production Kafka cluster scans. 80% of them had at least one finding that would fail a SOC 2 T…
The future of Kafka is diskless topics + native Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake integration Intro Ursa is a relatively new engine that's being fitted into…