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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!
Apache Kafka 3.4 includes early access to ZooKeeper to KRaft migrations, enabling existing Kafka clusters to migrate to KRaft mode and gain scalability and resiliency benefits. Additionally, 3.4 includes several updates to Kafka Core, Streams, Connect, and more.
Learn why configuring consumer Group IDs are a crucial part of designing your consumer application. By the end of this post, you’ll understand the impact they have on three areas: work sharing, new data detection, and data recovery.