A very nice tool from Tom Cooper for tracking KIPs and FLIPs.

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#apacheflink

https://ossip.dev/

How to process JSON data in a Kafka Connect pipeline, and explain the schema format that Kafka uses to describe JSON events.

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https://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=5857

Say Goodbye to ZooKeeper

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https://aiven.io/blog/say-goodbye-to-zookeeper

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

Learn more ⇨ https://bit.ly/4d119nc

#EventDrivenArchitecture #ApacheKafka #SoftwareDevelopment

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

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

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https://www.warpstream.com/blog/warpstream-events-built-in-observability-powered-by-kafka

Automate test and failure analysis via streams for Apache Kafka

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https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/19/automate-test-and-failure-analysis-streams-apache-kafka#

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

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