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.

How to implement a secure access to a Kafka cluster in Kubernetes

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.

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.