Kafka

MirrorMaker: The Busy Bee of Cross-Cluster Kafka

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If you’ve ever needed the same messages to buzz happily in two different Kafka clusters — say, one in your data center and one in the cloud — MirrorMaker is the little worker that carries nectar across hives. It’s Kafka’s native toolkit for copying topics, syncing consumer group offsets (so your apps can resume reading in the other cluster), … Read more

Apache Kafka: The Pub-Sub Party That Never Ends

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So, you want to talk about Apache Kafka? Good. That means either (a) you’re an engineer wondering why every job description includes “Kafka experience required,” (b) your boss just told you to “implement a Kafka pipeline” without explaining what it is, or © you saw the word Kafka and thought this was about 20th-century existential … Read more