Igor De SouzaCan Kafka Queues Make Consumers Faster?
https://www.streamingdata.tech/p/can-kafka-queues-make-consumers-faster
What’s new in Spring for Apache Kafka 4? by Tim van Baarsen @ Spring I/O 2026
What’s new in Spring for Apache Kafka 4? by Tim van Baarsen @ Spring I/O 2026
Stateful Kafka Streams Processors: Reducing Rebalancing - Lessons Learned
https://lukastymo.com/posts/028-stateful-kafka-stream-processors
Stateful Kafka Streams Processors: Reducing Rebalancing - Lessons Learned
Stateful Kafka Streams on Kubernetes need configuration to stay stable during rolling updates without causing lag. If your processor must be fast, runs on few partitions, and short lag matters, the defaults are not enough. Enable static membership with a timeout based on the worst-case duration of your rolling updates.
Awesome Kafka
A curated list of awesome Apache Kafka resources, tools, libraries, and applications.
Sensor City Traffic Demo — Kafka on Kubernetes
Kafka-Driven User Notification System
A comprehensive demonstration of Apache Kafka integration with Spring Boot, covering everything from basic producer-consumer patterns to advanced schema registry implementations.
https://github.com/ARONAGENT/Kafka-Driven-User-Notification-System
GitHub - ARONAGENT/Kafka-Driven-User-Notification-System: Kafka-based user notification system built with Spring Boot. Supports Avro serialization, Confluent Schema Registry, secure communication, and real-time event processing with monitoring.
Kafka-based user notification system built with Spring Boot. Supports Avro serialization, Confluent Schema Registry, secure communication, and real-time event processing with monitoring. - ARONAGEN...
Fraud Detection System
A real-time fraud detection system built with Apache Kafka, featuring dual-format messaging (Avro + JSON), stateful stream processing, and a rich terminal-based monitoring UI.
https://github.com/mahmoudnajmeh/fraud-detection-system-kafka
OTT Streaming Analytics Pipeline (Kafka + PySpark + SQL + Delta Live Tables)
Getting Started with Apache Kafka – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide.
https://muslimahmad.com/getting-started-with-apache-kafka-ultimate/
Getting Started with Apache Kafka- The Ultimate Beginner's Guide (Part 1)
If you've been in the backend world for a while, you've probably heard the word "Kafka" thrown around in system design interviews, architecture meetings, or that one senior dev's Slack message. I remember the first time I came across it - I thought, "Another tool? Really?" But once I actually sat down and understood what Kafka does, it genuinely changed how I think about building systems at scale.
Relieving an overloaded Kafka streaming system
https://timseniordev.substack.com/p/relieving-an-overloaded-kafka-streaming?r=28x37o
