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Happy 2017! Wishing you a wonderful year full of fast and scalable data streams.
Many things have happened since we last shared the state of Apache Kafka® and the streams ecosystem. Let’s take a look!
Most importantly – we did a bug fix release. Apache Kafka 0.10.1.1 fixes some critical issues found in the 0.10.1.0 release. There is a pretty substantial list of fixes, so if you are running 0.10.1.0, we recommend upgrading to avoid running into issues we already resolved.
Kafka Summit! If you haven’t heard – last year was so successful that we are doing two events this year. New York on May 8th and San Francisco on August 28th. Call for paper is ending soon, so please submit your talk proposals this week!
There are many KIPs (improvement proposals) being discussed in the Kafka developer list, many of them are huge improvements:
In addition to the many KIPs, there are some interesting releases, blogs and presentations I’d recommend checking out:
The beauty of Kafka as a technology is that it can do a lot with little effort on your part. In effect, it’s a black box. But what if you need to see into the black box to debug something? This post shows what the producer does behind the scenes to help prepare your raw event data for the broker.
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.8.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.