Say Goodbye to ZooKeeper

Automated, Zero-Downtime KRaft Migrations Now Available on Aiven

Aiven

Meet Tansu!

An #opensource, Kafka-compatible broker that’s stateless, leaderless, and scales to zero.

• Pluggable storage: S3, SQLite, Postgres
• Broker-side schema validation
• Direct writes to Iceberg & Delta Lake

Built in #RustLang, - 20MB RAM, ~10ms startup

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Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0-M2, 4.0.4, and 3.3.14 Available

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https://spring.io/blog/2026/03/17/spring-kafka-4

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0-M2, 4.0.4, and 3.3.14 Available

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.1.0-M2, 4.0.4, and 3.3.14 Available

Check out what's new in the #Spring community 👉 https://bit.ly/3NMwcbY

The third milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP; along with the second milestone releases of Spring Data and Spring for Apache Kafka.

#Java #SpringBoot #SpringData #SpringSecurity #SpringAI #SpringVault #ApacheKafka

Kafka Isn’t a Database, But We Gave It a Query Engine Anyway

With WarpStream Events, there is no more wrangling multiple tools. Get built-in observability without any additional infrastructure.

Automate test and failure analysis via streams for Apache Kafka | Red Hat Developer

Explore an automated, event-driven solution using streams for Apache Kafka, Debezium CDC, and Quarkus with SmallRye Reactive Messaging to sync failure analysis

Red Hat Developer

IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents

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https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-03-17-ibm-completes-acquisition-of-confluent,-making-real-time-data-the-engine-of-enterprise-ai-and-agents

IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent, Making Real Time Data the Engine of Enterprise AI and Agents

IBM and Confluent deliver a smart data platform that gives every AI model, agent, and automated workflow the real-time, trusted data needed to operate across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments at scale.

IBM Newsroom

How to Set Up a Kafka Cluster with KRaft Architecture (Step-by-Step)

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https://dataverses.io/resources/blog/setting-up-kafka-cluster-with-kraft

How to Set Up a Kafka Cluster with KRaft Architecture (Step-by-Step)

ZooKeeper is deprecated and on its way out. Learn how to spin up a 3-node Kafka KRaft cluster using Docker Compose — no Java installs, no systemd units, no external dependencies.

Dataverses

Dead Letter Topic #01

#apachekafka

Interesting resources from the broader event streaming and real-time data ecosystem.

https://topicigor.substack.com/p/dead-letter-topic-01

Kafka, Disk, Tiered Storage — and the Rise of Diskless Streaming Architectures

Understanding Kafka’s evolution beyond its original architecture

Medium