Hacker News with Generative AI: Kafka

When Kafka is not the right Move (rejot.dev)
When designing distributed systems, event streaming platforms such as Kafka are the preferred solution for asynchronous communication. In fact, on Kafka’s official website, the first use-case listed is messaging1. My believe is that this default choice can lead to problems and unnecessary complexity. The main reason for this is the conversion between state and events, which we’ll look at in this article through a game of chess.

Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Event Streaming, Kafka

11 points by WilcoKruijer 26 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Kafka Passwords (github.com/timeplus-io)

C++, AWS, Security, Kafka, Open Source

50 points by jovezhong 28 days ago | 13 comments

Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get? (broot.ca)
There is oft-quoted advice that Kafka does poorly as a job queue. I’ve experienced this myself, and I wanted to formalize it a bit.

Kafka, Performance, Queues, Software Engineering

133 points by alexwebr 44 days ago | 139 comments

Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms (cefboud.github.io)
I recently undertook the delusional project of writing my own implementation of a Kafka Broker: MonKafka. Deep into that rabbit hole, I fell into a different one when trying to implement compression for Kafka’s record batches. Kafka supports, as of now, four schemes: GZIP, Snappy, LZ4, and ZSTD. While proceeding with my implementation, I realized I really didn’t know that much about the fascinating topic of compression.

Compression Algorithms, Software Development, Kafka

213 points by thunderbong 74 days ago | 38 comments

Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog (mitpress.mit.edu)

Philosophy, Literature, Books, Kafka, Animals

84 points by anarbadalov 115 days ago | 12 comments

Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1 (jepsen.io)
Bufstream is a Kafka-compatible streaming system which stores records directly in an object storage service like S3. We found three safety and two liveness issues in Bufstream, including stuck consumers and producers, spurious zero offsets, and the loss of acknowledged writes in healthy clusters. These problems were resolved by version 0.1.3.

Distributed Systems, Streaming, Kafka, Object Storage, Bug Fixes

224 points by aphyr 142 days ago | 85 comments

How to Get Remote Code Execution in Kafka UI (github.blog)

Security, Kafka, Programming, Software

52 points by jandeboevrie 255 days ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka (github.com/sauljabin)

Kafka, User Interfaces, Software, Show HN

164 points by sauljp 263 days ago | 41 comments

Bufstream: Kafka at 10x Lower Cost (buf.build)

Kafka, Cost Optimization, Streaming, Messaging, Data Infrastructure

15 points by fleshgrinder 268 days ago | 6 comments

Zero Disks Is Better (For Kafka) (warpstream.com)