This blog describes the new preview implementation of KIP-500, Zookeeper-less Apache Kafka, released in 3.0!

In this post I will create a Kafka topic and, using the command line tools to alter the retention policy and then confirm that messages are being retained as we would expect them too.

This blog describes some of the main differences between Apache Kafka and Pulsar - two of the leading data streaming Apache projects.

As with Kafka, Pulsar lets you operate a standalone cluster so you can get the grasp of the basics. In my last post I did a side by side comparison of Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar. Let’s continue looking at Pulsar a little closer.