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I’m really excited to announce a major new feature in Apache Kafka v0.10: Kafka’s Streams API. The Streams API, available as a Java library that is part of the official […]

It was another productive month in the Apache Kafka community. Many of the KIPs that were under active discussion in the last Log Compaction were implemented, reviewed, and merged into […]

A few months ago, we announced the major release of Apache Kafka 0.9, which added several new features like Security, Kafka Connect, the new Java consumer and also critical bug […]

For a long time, a substantial portion of data processing that companies did ran as big batch jobs — CSV files dumped out of databases, log files collected at the […]

Welcome to the February 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us know.

TLS, Kerberos, SASL, and Authorizer in Apache Kafka 0.9 – Enabling New Encryption, Authorization, and Authentication Features Apache Kafka is frequently used to store critical data making it one of […]

When Kafka was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, we […]

When we released Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0, we talked about all of the big new features we added: the new consumer, Kafka Connect, security features, and much more. What we didn’t […]

Happy 2016! Wishing you a wonderful, highly scalable, and very reliable year. Log Compaction is a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us […]

Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed message system that is being adopted by hundreds of companies to manage their real-time data. Companies use Kafka for many applications (real time stream […]