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Sharing 15+ years of software development experience on http://digitalbuff.dev. Self-employed developer specialized in building data platforms and applications for clients. Writing a book on Kafka Streams, follow me for updates!

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GitHub - responsivedev/responsive-pub: A highly available and infinitely scalable, drop-in replacement for Kafka Streams A highly available and infinitely scalable, drop-in replacement for Kafka Streams - responsivedev/responsive-pub

The code for Responsive's solution to the scaling problem is available on Github: github.com/responsivede...

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Hacking Kafka Streams with Sophie Blee‑Goldman | Ep. 15 | Confluent Developer Podcast
Hacking Kafka Streams with Sophie Blee‑Goldman | Ep. 15 | Confluent Developer Podcast Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Tim Berglund talks to Sophie Blee-Goldman (Responsive) about her career in container orchestration and Kafka Streams. Sophie’s first job: interning at…

Released my Kafka Streams roundup, then this gem of a podcast episode dropped one hour later. A must-watch story about hacking #KafkaStreams to defy partition limits and its parallelism constraints. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEZI...
#ApacheKafka

19.01.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Roundup - January 2026 | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Latest news and content from the Kafka Streams community for January 2026

Want to know what happened in the #KafkaStreams community recently? I've just published my Kafka Streams roundup! πŸ—žοΈ
Two new KIPs were started this new year, and some excellent articles were published in December.
kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf...
#ApacheKafka

19.01.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ„ 🎁 Holiday sale - 10% off the Kafka Streams Field Guide

Give yourself the gift of knowledgeβ€”less time troubleshooting, more time building with confidence in 2026.

kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

#ApacheKafka #KafkaStreams

23.12.2025 07:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Field Guide | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

Price goes up tomorrow - Launch week ending.

Today is the last day to get the Kafka Streams Field Guide at a 15% launch discount. If you’ve been meaning to grab it, now’s the time.

kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

#ApacheKafka #KafkaStreams

22.12.2025 07:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Field Guide | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

Troubleshooting a Kafka Streams issue can cost multiple hours.
The Kafka Streams Field Guide helps you avoid OOMs, state-sharing bugs, long rebalances, and fragile exception handling.
If it saves you one afternoon of troubleshooting, it’s paid for itself
πŸ‘‰Get your copy now kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

19.12.2025 07:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Field Guide - Free Chapters | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

No fluff. Just straightforward advice and deep insights to improve your Kafka Streams performance.

Get it free: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/free-chapters

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πŸ“Œ Partitioning Strategy: How to size topics, optimize message distribution, ensure ordering, and handle co-partitioning.

πŸ“Œ Rebalance Tuning: Understand warmup tasks and how to configure them to reach stable, higher throughput faster.

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Get my Kafka Streams Performance Pack (Free PDF). Two critical chapters from my new Kafka Streams Field Guide on the topics that matter most in production.
#ApacheKafka #KafkaStreams

17.12.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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No Graphics API β€” Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

16.12.2025 18:51 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 12
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The wait is over β€” my Kafka Streams Field Guide is officially released! πŸŽ‰ πŸš€
Launch week = 15% off (auto‑applied on checkout)
Get your copy now! πŸ‘‰ kafkastreamsfieldguide.com
#Kafka #KafkaStreams

16.12.2025 08:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Field Guide | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

πŸš€ It’s almost time β€” the Kafka Streams Field Guide releases TOMORROW!

This isn’t a beginner’s guide. It’s built for engineers who want to understand the framework deeply, solve real issues, and design resilient, high-performance apps.

Be ready.
kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

15.12.2025 07:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Field Guide | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

πŸš€ Launch week is almost here!

The #KafkaStreams Field Guide drops next Tue, Dec 16 β€” and early buyers get 15% off during launch week with code LAUNCHWEEK (auto-applied at checkout).

I’m also using purchasing power parity so you get a fair regional price.

kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

12.12.2025 07:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Kafka Streams Field Guide | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

πŸ“£ Release Date Announcement!
My #KafkaStreams Field Guide releases next Tuesday, Dec 16th!

I can’t wait to share my 8 insights from running Kafka Streams in productionβ€”so you can build & deploy with confidence.

kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

09.12.2025 10:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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IBM to Acquire Confluent to Create Smart Data Platform for Enterprise Generative AI IBM and Confluent, Inc. announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share,…

IBM acquires Confluent, the #Kafka company.
newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-i...

08.12.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ I've built a new interactive simulation of #Kafka Streams, showcasing state stores!

See state stores being restored, switch between RocksDB & in-memory state store behavior,restart tasks. Great for understanding or explaining Kafka Streams!

Try it here: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/tools/state-...

02.12.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations YouTube video by /noclip

🚨NEW DOC ALERTπŸ•ΉοΈ

The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...

After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here.

In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.

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Interesting links - November 2025

Wait what's this?!
I've managed to pull my finger out to ship a list of **a whole lot of interesting links about stuff going on in the world of data for November**, a whole three days left until the end of the month!

rmoff.net/2025/11/26/i...

27.11.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Reimagining Stream Processing with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 9 | Confluent Developer
Reimagining Stream Processing with Matthias J. Sax | Ep. 9 | Confluent Developer Listen: https://confluent.buzzsprout.com | Viktor Gamov talks to Matthias J. Sax (Confluent) about his career in stream processing and, specifically, Kafka Streams. Matthias’ first job: an…

Interesting interview with Matthias J. Sax, technical lead for #KafkaStreams at Confluent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrDU...

17.11.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams News - November 2025 | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Latest news and content from the Kafka Streams community for November 2025

Just published my #KafkaStreams news summary! πŸ”₯
Highlights: 4.1.1 bug-fix release, upcoming DLQ feature for Kafka Streams, new Streams UI in Confluent Cloud, Current sessions, & more.
kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf...
#ApacheKafka

17.11.2025 10:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Making Of Double Fine's Keeper
The Making Of Double Fine's Keeper Peer behind the striped Double Fine curtains for another glimpse behind the scenes, in this Making-of Keeper featurette! Last time we made one of these it was a huge 33 course banquet, but this…

Keeper was a really unique game with a beautiful art style. Double Fine now released this making of documentary. Loved the behind the scenes look! #gamedev
youtu.be/1OOfRTfMnx0?...

15.11.2025 15:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Apache Kafka Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform.

We are happy to share that the Apache Kafka 4.1.1 bug-fix release is now available!

It contains a critical memory-leak fix for #KafkaStreams and many other fixes. For details see kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_...

Thanks to 32 contributors and Lianet Magrans as our RM.

14.11.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ I've built an interactive simulation of #Kafka Streams’ architecture!

See messages flow through the simulation. Tweak partitions, threads and throughput. Watch how it impacts processing. Great for understanding or explaining Kafka Streams!

Try it here: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/tools/intera...

10.11.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka Streams Field Guide | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book Field guide with 8 essential insights for running Kafka Streams in production

Exciting news about my #KafkaStreams Field Guide! πŸ“š

βœ… Will be available in HTML, PDF, and EPUB
βœ… Code examples in both Java and Scala

Read it however you like, in whichever language you prefer. More details coming soon!

#ApacheKafka #dataengineering

kafkastreamsfieldguide.com

03.11.2025 07:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - kineticedge/kafka-streams-dashboards: showcases Grafana dashboards for Kafka Stream applications leveraging client JMX metrics. showcases Grafana dashboards for Kafka Stream applications leveraging client JMX metrics. - kineticedge/kafka-streams-dashboards

It leverages the awesome kineticedge/kafka-streams-dashboards stack, so it's very easy to try out!
buff.ly/6IgnSVU

27.10.2025 07:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It shows you processing latency, message flow per topic, tracks RocksDB activity, breaks down exactly how each thread spends its time (processing, punctuating, committing, or polling), and more…

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I've built a Core Insights dashboard for #Kafka Streams! πŸ“Š

This Prometheus-based Grafana dashboard brings together the metrics that actually matter. One view to spot issues before they become incidents.
#dataengineering

kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf...

27.10.2025 07:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting new tool to diagnose Kafka clusters! Already has 17 scenarios built-in. They're looking for feedback to add more πŸ‘‡

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Great overview of Kafka Streams!

15.10.2025 20:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Monitor Kafka Streams Health in Confluent Cloud Quickly troubleshoot Kafka Streams apps with new health metrics in Confluent Cloud. Spot bottlenecks, monitor RocksDB, and reduce MTTRβ€”no extra code.

Happy to share, that we did release an update to our @kafkastreams.bsky.social UI in #ConfluentCloud.

We are now showing more detailed information about instances, threads, running/rebalancing state, and JMX metrics.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

www.confluent.io/blog/monitor...

14.10.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0