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So far in this series, we have recognized that by going back to first principles, we have a new foundation to work with. Event-first thinking enables us to build a

In anything but the smallest deployment of Apache Kafka®, there are often going to be multiple clusters of Kafka Connect and KSQL. Kafka Connect is used for building event streaming

Every developer who uses Apache Kafka® has used a Kafka consumer at least once. Although it is the simplest way to subscribe to and access events from Kafka, behind the

When managing Apache Kafka® clusters at scale, tasks that are simple on small clusters turn into significant burdens. To be fair, a lot of things turn into significant burdens at

Some years ago, when I was at LinkedIn, I didn’t really know what Apache Kafka® would become but had an inkling that the next generation of applications would not be

With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.1.0, Kafka Streams introduced the processor topology optimization framework at the Kafka Streams DSL layer. This framework opens the door for various optimization techniques

Industries are oftentimes more complex than we think. For example, the dinner you order at a restaurant or the ingredients you buy (or have delivered) to cook dinner at home

So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. You have successfully piloted a few services backed by Apache Kafka®, and it is now supporting business-critical

When it was first created, Apache Kafka® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages

While the current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) focuses on smart “things”—smart homes, smart cars, smart watches—the first known IoT device was a simple Coca-Cola vending machine at