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This month saw the proposal of a few KIPs which will have a big impact on Apache Kafka’s semantics as well as Kafka’s operability.
Lots of interesting happenings occurred in the wider streaming community as well, notably:
And last but not least, Confluent released version 3.1 of Confluent Platform.
Happy Holidays!
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