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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:
Confluent Tableflow unifies operational and analytical data by integrating Kafka with zero ETL, leveraging open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake. It offers advantages over traditional zero ETL by enabling data reuse, schema decoupling, and better scalability, streamlining data sharing.
Big news! KIP-848, the next-gen Consumer Rebalance Protocol, is now available in Confluent Cloud! This is a major upgrade for your Kafka clusters, offering faster rebalances and improved stability. Our new blog post dives deep into how KIP-848 functions, making it easy to understand the benefits.