Effective Communication in Slack for Engineering teams
Most engineering teams have mixed feelings about Slack. For some, it's an endless stream of distractions. For others, it's essential. Learn…
How to debug Strimzi Kafka Connect Connector
How to connect JConsole, JMXTerm, and Java Flight Recorder to Strimzi Kafka Connect on Kubernetes by exposing JMX ports and configuring JVM options.
Bridging the gap between eras using Debezium and CDC
Achieving real-time data processing with legacy systems can be challenging. This post explores how Change Data Capture (CDC) and Debezium can…
The profound problem with Terraform we are not talking about
With more than 2 billion downloads over time to the AWS provider, it’s safe to say that Terraform is de facto the gold standard for IaC.
But I…
Know Your Limits: Cluster Benchmarks
Knowing how much your system can handle, how many RPS it can make and what the limiting factor is - the disk, network, memory or CPU can give…
A Practical Guide for Kafka Cost Reduction
What are we paying for when running Kafka on the cloud? And how can we reduce our cloud cost?
Apache Kafka Lag Monitoring For Human Beings
This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly…
How to collect Kafka configuration as metrics?
There are few useful configuration parameters that might be beneficial to collect when working with Kafka, but how to?