Igor De Souza22h ago

Kafka Is Not an Event Store: A Love Letter to the Wrong Tool

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https://karoxi.dev/blog/kafka_not_an_event_store

MessageStore.v1 | High-Performance gRPC Event Store

The invisible infrastructure for your facts. Built for high concurrency and operational peace of mind.

Igor De Souza1d ago

Kafka Safe Producer Defaults and Version Compatibility Explained

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https://rajeevranjan.dev/blog/kafka/kafka-safe-producer-defaults-compatibility/

Kafka Safe Producer Defaults and Version Compatibility Explained

Understand Kafka safe producer defaults, idempotence, and version compatibility. Learn when to configure safe producer settings for Kafka brokers and clients.

Igor De Souza2d ago

Kafka Rewards the Paranoid: 11 Surprises

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https://www.conduktor.io/blog/11-kafka-gotchas-production-surprises

Kafka Rewards the Paranoid: 11 Surprises

11 Kafka behaviors we found helping customers, then validated in the source code. Silent safety bypasses, configs that lie, compression traps.

Conduktor
Igor De Souza3d ago

Kafka Consumer Lag Explained

#apachekafka

A engineer’s guide — from how offsets really work, through a live e-commerce incident, to a Prometheus alerting playbook and a troubleshooting decision tree.

https://devopsguyankit.substack.com/p/kafka-consumer-lag-explained

Kafka Consumer Lag Explained

A engineer’s guide — from how offsets really work, through a live e-commerce incident, to a Prometheus alerting playbook and a troubleshooting decision tree.

DevOps IN SPACE
Igor De Souza4d ago

How to Build a Streaming Word Count App with Kafka Streams in Java

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https://data.engineeringpy.com/how-to-build-a-streaming-word-count-app-with-kafka-streams-in-java-645c032c5d29

How to Build a Streaming Word Count App with Kafka Streams in Java

Real-time data processing is at the heart of modern data systems. Whether you’re analyzing logs, monitoring user activity, or building…

Medium
Igor De Souza5d ago

Kafka vs Pulsar vs RabbitMQ vs NATS: What's Actually Best for Your Use Case?

#apachekafka

https://digitalis.io/post/kafka-vs-pulsar-vs-rabbitmq-vs-nats-whats-actually-best-for-your-use-case

Kafka vs Pulsar vs RabbitMQ vs NATS: What's Actually Best for Your Use Case? | Digitalis Blog

Streaming Broker Guide 2026: Kafka vs. Pulsar vs. RabbitMQ vs. NATS

Igor De Souza6d ago

Ursa - a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka

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https://topicpartition.io/blog/ursa-a-new-lakehouse-first-storage-engine-for-kafka

Ursa - a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka

In case you haven’t been following, the event streaming Kafka space has been in fierce competition recently1. What used to be dominated by unicorn-turned-public-company Confluent now consists of 20+ vendors (of which IBM controls 5 now after it bought Confluent)2.

TopicPartition
Igor De SouzaApr 11

Apache Kafka Explained

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https://medium.com/@amanpatel.workid/apache-kafka-explained-19eb2d017c95?postPublishedType=initial

Apache Kafka Explained

From “what is it” to actually understanding it — with visuals

Medium
Igor De SouzaApr 10

Guide to Apache Kafka Disaster Recovery and Multi-Region Architectures

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https://softwaremill.com/guide-to-apache-kafka-disaster-recovery-and-multi-region-architectures/

Guide to Apache Kafka Disaster Recovery and Multi-Region Architectures

Using Apache Kafka? Then, a disaster recovery plan and multiregion architectures are not “nice to have” capabilities but core elements of business continuity strategy.

SoftwareMill
Igor De SouzaApr 9

Real-Time Sales Data Pipeline Simulation with Kafka

#apachekafka

This project demonstrates a real-time data engineering pipeline.

https://github.com/praveenkrishnan18/Real-TimeSalesDataPipelineSimulationwithKafka

GitHub - praveenkrishnan18/Real-TimeSalesDataPipelineSimulationwithKafka

Contribute to praveenkrishnan18/Real-TimeSalesDataPipelineSimulationwithKafka development by creating an account on GitHub.

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