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Discussions around Apache Kafka for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps.

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Kafka is not a queue — and treating it like one will wreck your system

Kafka is not a queue — and treating it like one will wreck your system

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We Migrated from RabbitMQ to Kafka in Production — Here's Why (And What We Learned)

We Migrated from RabbitMQ to Kafka in Production — Here's Why (And What We Learned)

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How Three Safeguards Reduced Causality Violations From 8.3% to Near Zero in an Async Payment Pipeline

How Three Safeguards Reduced Causality Violations From 8.3% to Near Zero in an Async Payment Pipeline

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Kafka Partitioning Strategies: How to Get It Right Before It Costs You

Kafka Partitioning Strategies: How to Get It Right Before It Costs You

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Strong vs eventual consistency: you can't have it always-on and always-right. Pick one.

Strong vs eventual consistency: you can't have it always-on and always-right. Pick one.

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Five days with eventferry — MySQL, SQL Server, MSK IAM, and a core that didn't move

Five days with eventferry — MySQL, SQL Server, MSK IAM, and a core that didn't move

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I Built a Local-First Kafka GUI From Scratch to Handle Massive Clusters

I Built a Local-First Kafka GUI From Scratch to Handle Massive Clusters

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I built a transactional outbox toolkit for Node.js — meet eventferry

I built a transactional outbox toolkit for Node.js — meet eventferry

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I Built a Mini Message Broker in Pure Python and Finally Understood How Kafka Moves Millions of Events

I Built a Mini Message Broker in Pure Python and Finally Understood How Kafka Moves Millions of Events

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Kafka Streams 101: A Developer’s Guide to Real-Time Application Logic

Kafka Streams 101: A Developer’s Guide to Real-Time Application Logic

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We Replaced REST with Kafka and Cut API Failures 90% — .NET 9 Event-Driven Architecture

We Replaced REST with Kafka and Cut API Failures 90% — .NET 9 Event-Driven Architecture

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I Built an Interactive Kafka Playground (Partitions, Keys, Consumer Groups, Offsets)

I Built an Interactive Kafka Playground (Partitions, Keys, Consumer Groups, Offsets)

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Confluence Docs Lie. Tie Your Documentation to Code Instead📘

Confluence Docs Lie. Tie Your Documentation to Code Instead📘

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Real-Time Notification Systems Are Harder Than Most Teams Expect

Real-Time Notification Systems Are Harder Than Most Teams Expect

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Apache Kafka Explained: A Practical Beginner Guide for Data Engineers

Apache Kafka Explained: A Practical Beginner Guide for Data Engineers

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