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Category: Apache Kafka

Instaclustr product update: June 2026

Here’s a roundup of the latest features and updates that we’ve recently released. If you have any particular feature requests or ...

Kafka® Streams error handling, Part 2: How to catch and fix bad records with KIP-1034 and ...

This “Apache Kafka Streams news processing application with KIP-1034” blog series is split into two parts. Part 1 focused on the ...

How to build an Apache Kafka® Streams application with KIP-1034 Dead Letter Queues and LLM...

Introduction In this two-part Kafka Streams tutorial, we build a Kafka Streams application that processes streaming news data in ...

Kafka® to Iceberg: Build a queryable data lake with ClickHouse®

That's ClickHouse below querying an Iceberg table on S3 within 0.31 seconds to read metadata and return the first rows. No Spark&...

How to handle bad messages safely in Kafka Streams with KIP-1034 Dead Letter Queues

What should you do with messages that can’t be delivered? If you have spent time developing Kafka Streams applications in Java, ...

When (and when not) to use Apache Kafka® Diskless Topics

I recently wrote a Visual Guide to Apache Kafka Diskless Topics, which introduces the main ideas behind Kafka Diskless Topics and ...

Say goodbye to ZooKeeper™: A production-ready path to KRaft designed for service ...

Over the last few months, NetApp has executed over 700 in‑place ZooKeeper‑to‑KRaft migrations on the NetApp Instaclustr Platform, ...

Kafka Sink Connectors explained: Bridging your data pipeline

A "sink connector" sounds simple—until you realize different systems use the term from different perspectives. In Apache Kafka ...

Why regular Kafka® client upgrades matter: Lessons from the April 2026 CVEs

Keeping Kafka brokers and, just as importantly, Kafka clients up to date is one of the simplest and most effective ways to&hellip...