Are Kafka Replicas Synchronous or Asynchronous?

Discover how Apache Kafka handles replication. Learn why Kafka followers look asynchronous in data movement but act synchronously during acks=all commits.

SoftwareMill
Building Always-On AI Agents with Flink and Kafka

Always-on AI agents built on Kafka and Flink turn real-time events into actions, enabling proactive systems that detect, reason, and respond

Medium

Kafka to Iceberg: Ingestion Guide

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A practical guide to streaming data from Apache Kafka into Apache Iceberg tables

https://lakeops.dev/blog/kafka-to-iceberg-ingestion-guide

Kafka to Iceberg: Ingestion Guide - LakeOps Blog

Stream data from Apache Kafka to Apache Iceberg with Kafka Connect, Apache Flink, Spark Structured Streaming, or Debezium CDC. Covers configuration, schema evolution, partitioning, exactly-once semantics, small file management, and autonomous maintenance for production streaming tables.

LakeOps

kafka Share Group Visualizer

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https://queuesforkafkaviz.dev/

KIP-932 Share Group Visualizer

What Is Apache Kafka? A Beginner-Friendly Guide for System Design Interviews

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https://thecodingcamp.mykajabi.com/blog/what-is-apache-kafka

What Is Apache Kafka?

Learn what Apache Kafka is, how it works, and why it's essential for scalable distributed systems. A beginner-friendly guide for system design interviews and backend engineers.

We've just taken a big step for the Kroxylicious project! Proposal 70 has merged — the result of a lot of hard work shaping the Routing API.

There's plenty of code to follow before it's a usable thing, but this lays the foundation.

https://github.com/kroxylicious/design/blob/main/proposals/070-routing-api.md

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design/proposals/070-routing-api.md at main · kroxylicious/design

Contains documents, designs and discussions around Kroxylicious - kroxylicious/design

GitHub
What's Really Inside Kafka's poll()?

A Kafka consumer looks simple: a single connection to Kafka, then you poll(). It couldn't be so far from the truth.

Conduktor

AutoMQ Reaches 10K GitHub Stars as Diskless Kafka Gains Global Adoption

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https://www.automq.com/blog/automq-10k-stars-diskless-kafka-global-adoption

AutoMQ Reaches 10K GitHub Stars as Diskless Kafka Gains Global Adoption | AutoMQ Blog

AutoMQ passes 10K GitHub Stars, with public developer discussion, Apache Kafka KIP-1183, technical innovation, and production adoption around Diskless Kafka.

AutoMQ

Redpanda Agent Skills

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Agent Skills for Redpanda's products, Streaming, SQL,Connect, and Cloud unified by the rpk command-line experience. Each skill is grounded in Redpanda's own source code, documentation, and APIs.

https://github.com/redpanda-data/skills

GitHub - redpanda-data/skills: Agent Skills for Redpanda Products

Agent Skills for Redpanda Products. Contribute to redpanda-data/skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub