Tag
kafka
distributed systemsThe Acknowledgment Gap - How Event-Driven Systems Lose Messages Without Errors
Event-driven systems can drop messages while every component reports success. How acknowledgment boundaries hide loss, and where to put them.
distributed systemsBasics of Apache Kafka - An Overview
Topics, partitions, offsets, consumer groups and brokers: the Kafka concepts you need before designing anything on top of it.
distributed systemsSetting up a local Apache Kafka instance for testing
Run Apache Kafka locally with Docker Compose, understand its broker and ZooKeeper configuration, and verify it with a producer and consumer.