PKPoornachandra Kashiintechwithkashi.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 6 min readWhat Netflix's Write-Ahead Log Taught Me About Building Reliable Data SystemsIf you've worked on any system that touches more than one datastore , a cache here, a queue there, a database somewhere else , you already know the pain. One write succeeds, another silently fails, an00
PKPRINCE KUMARinprincekumar-engineer.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 27 min readKafka Explained Like You're 5: Events, Partitions, and Consumer GroupsHow does a large application process millions of events every day? Think about a food delivery app. Every minute, thousands of things are happening: Someone creates an account. Someone places an ord00
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Aug 22 · 16 min readMSK custom domain names shipped 17 August 2026, and the NLB behind them does not scale with your brokersMSK custom domain names shipped 17 August 2026, and the NLB behind them does not scale with your brokers Summary. Amazon MSK added cluster-level custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters on 17 00
SUSamuel Umohinumohsg.hashnode.dev·Aug 18 · 19 min readBuilding Fault-Tolerant, Event-Driven Kafka Pipelines in Go: Reliable Reprocessing & Dead Letter QueuesPrerequisites What do you need to follow along? Working knowledge of Golang. Go & Docker installed on your PC. What is an Event-Driven Architecture? An Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a design 00
KKafmainkafma.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 3 min readconfluent-kafka-python vs. kafka-python vs. aiokafkaPython developers have three established Kafka clients to consider: confluent-kafka-python, kafka-python, and aiokafka. They can all produce and consume Kafka records, but they fit different applicati00
KKafmainkafma.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 8 min readA New Kafka Viewer for a Better Debugging WorkflowKafma is a new Kafka UI client for macOS, Windows, and Linux, built to keep the debugging workflow in one workspace. Each topic opens as a persistent Console tab that keeps its message stream, produce10
RMRamon Melendez Juarezincodebymelendez.hashnode.dev·Jul 29 · 2 min readKafka in hospitals: real-world event architecture for HIS, LIS and billing in a Venezuelan mid-size hospitalMost Kafka “healthcare interoperability” examples are theoretical or focused on US/EU EHRs. I wanted to share a concrete case from a mid‑size hospital in Venezuela where we used Kafka as the event bac00
JSJay Solankiinunderstandingsystems.hashnode.dev·Jul 25 · 6 min readWhy RabbitMQ Instead of Kafka? Choosing the Right Tool for the ProblemSeries: Building a Distributed Scientific Data Pipeline (Part 2) In the previous article, I explored why my Distributed Scientific Data Pipeline (DSDP) needed a message broker in the first place. Tha00
SKSachin Kamathinzeliot-official.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 31 min readKafka 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 00
SKSachin Kamathinzeliot-official.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 6 min readPrivatise 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’s00