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Happy 2017! Wishing you a wonderful year full of fast and scalable data streams.
Many things have happened since we last shared the state of Apache Kafka® and the streams ecosystem. Let’s take a look!
Most importantly – we did a bug fix release. Apache Kafka 0.10.1.1 fixes some critical issues found in the 0.10.1.0 release. There is a pretty substantial list of fixes, so if you are running 0.10.1.0, we recommend upgrading to avoid running into issues we already resolved.
Kafka Summit! If you haven’t heard – last year was so successful that we are doing two events this year. New York on May 8th and San Francisco on August 28th. Call for paper is ending soon, so please submit your talk proposals this week!
There are many KIPs (improvement proposals) being discussed in the Kafka developer list, many of them are huge improvements:
In addition to the many KIPs, there are some interesting releases, blogs and presentations I’d recommend checking out:
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
The Kafka-Docker-composer is a simple tool to create a docker-compose.yml file for failover testing, to understand cluster settings like Kraft, and for the development of applications and connectors.