How Java, librdkafka and MassTransit Kafka clients handle acks, offsets, threading and errors, and what those differences mean for production systems.

Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ or NATS? A 2026 decision matrix for engineers, with each broker's strengths, Docker Compose try-outs and Java client examples.

Strimzi automates Kafka on Kubernetes and AxonOps adds deep observability. Together they make a production-ready stack for running and monitoring Kafka.

How Digitalis builds robust, compliant data platforms for enterprises, turning real-time and sensitive data into secure, scalable insight.

Mesh networks provide a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective alternative to traditional VPNs

Data validation and comprehensive error handling is one of those important tasks in building a Kafka application that I see skipped far too…

In a previous post (Read/Process/Write with Kafka Transactions) I talked about how transactions work within Kafka.

Secure external access to a Strimzi Kafka cluster on Kubernetes using Traefik ingress and your own certificate authority instead of self-signed certificates.

Many people use Kafka as a data hose for a stream of events where idempotence is not critical. For example, if you are recording user…

We have previously shown how easy it is to set up Kafka Connect to stream to and from external systems.

Kafka Connect saves you effort by providing a common framework to connect Kafka with external systems using Connectors.

I’ve been using Amazon MSK for some time and today I encountered an interesting problem with autoscaling. Read more to find out!

This blog shows you how and provides a fully working Ansible project on Github to install Kafka and manage its security.

If you want to understand how to easily ingest data from Kafka topics into Cassandra than this blog can show you how with the DataStax Kafka Connector.

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

How Kafka can help meet regulatory standards and compliance when used as an event broker to Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.

Create a Kafka topic, change its retention policy with the command-line tools, and confirm messages are retained and deleted as expected.

Unexpected out-of-memory errors in Kafka Connect over SSL? Configure SSL separately for internal connections, consumers and producers.