Kafka Partition Strategy: The Complete Guide to Designing for Scale from Day OneTL;DR Kafka partition strategy is one of the most important architectural decisions when building scalable event-driven applications. It determines how data is distributed across partitions, sets the Jul 21 · 31 min readzeliot-official.hashnode.dev
What Is Apache Kafka? Plain-English Guide for Engineers (2026)TL;DR Apache Kafka is a high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed event streaming platform ideal for real-time data processing. It organizes data into replicated topics and partitions, ensuring scalJul 15 · 10 min readzeliot-official.hashnode.dev
Privatise your Data Streams with Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) TL;DR Traditional SaaS streaming requires exporting sensitive data to a vendor cloud, creating security risks and egress costs. BYOC reverses this model by running the data plane inside the customer’sJul 14 · 6 min readzeliot-official.hashnode.dev
Real-Time Inventory Management with Kafka: How Retailers Are Eliminating StockoutsTL;DR Retailers process thousands of inventory transactions every second across physical stores, eCommerce platforms, warehouses, suppliers, and fulfillment centers. Yet many inventory systems still rJul 10 · 21 min readzeliot-official.hashnode.dev
Kafka Streams: A Production Guide to Joins, Aggregations, and Stateful ProcessingTL;DR Building real-time data pipelines is often more complex than it appears at first. A simple stream processing application may start with a few Kafka topics, joins, and aggregations. As data volumJul 2 · 24 min readzeliot-official.hashnode.dev
