The Kafka Incident That Was Just a Certificate (And the Operator That Saved MirrorMaker)
A Saturday afternoon alert: under-replicated partitions on the production Kafka cluster, well over the threshold. Status CRITICAL, replicas out of syn…
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A Saturday afternoon alert: under-replicated partitions on the production Kafka cluster, well over the threshold. Status CRITICAL, replicas out of syn…
Most Kafka “healthcare interoperability” examples are theoretical or focused on US/EU EHRs. I wanted to share a concrete case from a mid‑size hospital…
Architecture walkthroughs tend to show you the polished version — the diagram that survived a whiteboard, cleaned up after the fact. What they skip is…
Five days ago I posted I built a transactional outbox toolkit for Node.js — meet eventferry . The pitch was small and specific: Postgres + Kafka, the …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
This article serves as a technical follow-up to our KubeCon 2026 coverage, providing a comprehensive deep dive into the architecture and evolution of …
Technical leadership isn't always about having the right title; it’s about having the right influence. When you are operating without direct authority…