KKafmainkafma.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 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
SKSachin Kamathinzeliot-official.hashnode.dev·Jul 10 · 21 min readReal-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 r00
SKSachin Kamathinzeliot-official.hashnode.dev·Jul 2 · 24 min readKafka 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 volum00
SDStephane Derosiauxinconduktor.hashnode.dev·Jun 26 · 7 min readThe best way to self-serve Kafka: Policies and TemplatesAs platform team, if you've built a Kafka self-service for your application teams, it's because you want developers to create their own resources (topics and connectors) without filing a ticket to you00
DMDaisuke Masudaindaisuke.masuda.tokyo·Jun 22 · 20 min readApache Kafka: A Complete Engineer's Guide to Real-Time Data Streaming"Kafka is the central nervous system of a modern data architecture. Once you've seen it at scale, you can't unsee it." — An engineer who has debugged a RabbitMQ cluster at 3 AM https://speakerdeck.co00
SKSachin Kamathinzeliot-official.hashnode.dev·Jun 19 · 31 min readWhy Kafka Migration Projects Fail: 7 Critical Challenges and How to Prevent ThemTL;DR Migrating a Kafka deployment is rarely just an infrastructure exercise. While moving brokers and topics is relatively straightforward, the real complexity lies in migrating the surrounding ecosy00