Apache Kafka Replica Followers: Synchronous or Asynchronous?
https://softwaremill.com/apache-kafka-replica-followers-synchronous-or-asynchronous/
Apache Kafka Replica Followers: Synchronous or Asynchronous?
https://softwaremill.com/apache-kafka-replica-followers-synchronous-or-asynchronous/
Building Always-On AI Agents with Flink and Kafka
https://seanfalconer.medium.com/building-always-on-ai-agents-with-flink-and-kafka-d5188bed9774
Kafka to Iceberg: Ingestion Guide
A practical guide to streaming data from Apache Kafka into Apache Iceberg tables

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.
What Is Apache Kafka? A Beginner-Friendly Guide for System Design Interviews
https://thecodingcamp.mykajabi.com/blog/what-is-apache-kafka
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
What's Really Inside Kafka's poll()?
AutoMQ Reaches 10K GitHub Stars as Diskless Kafka Gains Global Adoption
https://www.automq.com/blog/automq-10k-stars-diskless-kafka-global-adoption
Redpanda Agent Skills
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.