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Apache Kafka® applications run in a distributed manner across multiple containers or machines. And in the world of distributed systems, what can go wrong often goes wrong. This blog post

There is a class of applications that cannot afford to be unavailable—for example, external-facing entry points into your organization. Typically, anything your customers interact with directly cannot go down. As

I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.8.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.8.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights

At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage,

Soon, Apache Kafka® will no longer need ZooKeeper! With KIP-500, Kafka will include its own built-in consensus layer, removing the ZooKeeper dependency altogether. The next big milestone in this effort

Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that

We recently published a series of tutorial videos and tweets on the Apache Kafka® platform as we see it. After you hear that there’s a thing called Kafka but before

I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.7.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights

Is Windows your favorite development environment? Do you want to run Apache Kafka® on Windows? Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), now you can, and with

As described in the blog post Apache Kafka® Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency, when KIP-500 lands next year, Apache Kafka will replace its usage of Apache ZooKeeper