Author: Danica Fine

Hi there, it’s me, Danica Fine, your friendly neighborhood Kafka Summit London Program Committee Chair. Kafka Summit London 2023 is in just over two weeks, and I’ll be joining our incredible community members at the ExCeL in London to talk all things Apache Kafka® over two jam-packed days.

If you’ve used Kafka for any amount of time you’ve likely heard about connections; the most common place that they come up is in regard to clients. Sure, producer and consumer clients connect to the cluster to do their jobs, but it doesn’t stop there. Nearly all interactions across a cluster...

This Thanksgiving-themed blog post walks through a brand new stream processing use case recipe for analyzing survey responses in real-time and gives ideas for how to spice it up and make the recipe your own!

The call for papers for Kafka Summit London 2023 has opened, and we’re looking to hear about your experiences using and working with Kafka. Every great technical talk starts with an experience. If you’re stuck looking for ideas on what to talk about, write what you know...

Rebalancing comes into play in Apache Kafka® when consumers join or leave a consumer group. In either case, there is a different number of consumers over which to distribute the partitions from the topic(s), and, so, they must be redistributed and rebalanced....

It can be easy to go about life without thinking about them, but requests are an important part of Apache Kafka; they form the basis of how clients interact with data as it moves into and out of Kafka topics, and, in certain cases, too many requests can have a negative impact on your brokers...

When you encounter a problem with Apache Kafka®—for example, an exploding number of connections to your brokers or perhaps some wonky record batching—it’s easy to consider these issues as something to be solved in and of themselves...

If you are new to Apache Kafka®, this article is a great way to help you kick-start your first Kafka project and set your data in motion. The best way […]

Back in 2020, so many folks picked up pandemic hobbies—things they could throw themselves into at full force while they were restricted by lockdowns. I chose houseplants. Prior to the […]

Whether you’re a seasoned Apache Kafka® developer or just getting started you’re likely to hit a snag at some point or another—either in configuring and understanding your clients or setting […]