SBSamanta Bindrainarchitecturedev.hashnode.devĀ·1h ago Ā· 9 min readKafka Disaster Recovery in KubernetesA Kafka cluster can remain perfectly healthy while your message processing quietly stops. No broker failures.No partition leader elections.No replication lag. Just Kubernetes evacuating the nodes runn00
SBSamanta Bindrainarchitecturedev.hashnode.devĀ·2d ago Ā· 8 min readKafka Partitioning Strategy in ProductionPartition count is the most consequential ā and most irreversible ā decision you make when designing a Kafka topic. Get it right and your system scales gracefully for years. Get it wrong and you're ei00
APAyush Panditinayush-pandit.hashnode.devĀ·4d ago Ā· 6 min readKafka Core Concepts When most developers first learn Kafka, they are introduced to a bunch of terms like Producer , Consumer, Partition, Offset, Topics etc. The problem is that none of these explain why Kafka exists. It'00
AYAnkit Yadavinheyankit.hashnode.devĀ·4d ago Ā· 8 min readEventLens : Building a Developer Analytics Platform from Scratchš Where I Left Off By the end of Phase 3, I had built something I was genuinely proud of. Events flowing through Kafka. Workers batch-inserting into PostgreSQL. Prometheus scraping metrics every 5 se00
BBBinayak Bhattacharjeeinbytelife.hashnode.devĀ·6d ago Ā· 10 min readWhy Idempotency Is Critical in Payment SystemsA customer taps "Pay Now" once. Their bank statement shows two charges. No one wrote a bug that says "charge twice" the code looks correct, the tests pass, and yet the money moved twice. This is one o00
RJRandhir Jassalinprepstack.hashnode.devĀ·Jun 14 Ā· 4 min readWe Replaced REST with Kafka and Cut API Failures by 90% ā A Production Cutover (.NET 9)TL;DR ā We swapped Mattrx's inter-service REST calls for Kafka topics (multi-tenant marketing analytics SaaS, .NET 9 / ASP.NET Core, Azure SQL, ~3,200 req/sec peak). Over 8 weeks: end-to-end ingestion00
Ssouradeep2205inplatform-engg-log.hashnode.devĀ·Jun 7 Ā· 5 min readWhy is Avro considered a first-class citizen for Kafka?Have you ever wondered, why Apache Avro is the preferred serialization format for kafka, even though JSON being the most popular format used everywhere? I was recently going through the AVRO internals00
SHSanskriti Harmukhinvultr.hashnode.devĀ·Jun 2 Ā· 3 min readDeploying Kafka Distributed Event Streaming on Ubuntu 24.04Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for real-time pipelines, log aggregation, and event-driven architectures. This guide deploys a single-node Kafka 4.x cluster in00
SDStanislav Deviatovinstn1slv.hashnode.devĀ·Jun 1 Ā· 16 min readIntegration Digest for May 2026Articles š Bucket4j + Infinispan: A Deep Dive Into Implementation A code-level walkthrough of running Bucket4j rate limiting on top of embedded Infinispan. It traces how InfinispanProxyManager wraps 00
SPSamar Prakashinsamarp.hashnode.devĀ·May 31 Ā· 34 min readStop Paying a Streaming Bus to Carry Bytes That Live for Ninety SecondsHow a shared filesystem became the cheapest, fastest outbox ever built ā and why FSx for OpenZFS is the version of that idea that finally scales I was staring at an AWS bill last quarter where a singl00
