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Kafka Consumer Groups and Offsets: What You Need to Know

Consumer group offsets are essential components in Apache Kafka, a leading platform for handling real-time event streaming. By allowing organizations to scale efficiently, manage data consumption, and track progress in data processing, Kafka’s consumer groups and offsets ensure reliability and performance. In this blog post, we'll dive deep into these concepts, explain how consumer groups and offsets work, and answer key questions about their functionality. We'll also explore several practical use cases that show how Kafka’s consumer groups and offsets drive real business value, from real-time analytics to machine learning pipelines.

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Starting Small with Kafka: Why It’s the Right Choice for Your Enterprise

Apache Kafka is a powerful event-streaming platform, but does your enterprise need to go all in from day one? In this blog, we explore why starting small with Kafka is the best strategy. Learn how an incremental approach can help you reduce complexity, and scale efficiently as your needs grow. Whether you're new to Kafka or looking for a practical implementation strategy, this guide will set you on the right path.

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Kafka Consumer Configuration: Optimize Performance with Key Settings & Use Cases

Kafka Consumer Configuration is at the heart of building efficient, scalable, and reliable data streaming applications. Whether you’re working with event-driven architectures, batch data ingestion, or real-time stream processing, the right configurations can make all the difference. In this guide, we’ll explore the most important Kafka consumer settings, break down their impact, and showcase practical use cases to help you optimize performance. By the end, you’ll have a clear roadmap to fine-tune your Kafka consumers for maximum efficiency.

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Rachel van Egmond
September 16, 2024
API Platform Integration for PostNL | Use case
API Platform Integration for PostNL | Use case

Integrating an API platform has improved PostNL’s notification services. PostNL is the Netherlands' leading postal and logistics provider by modernizing its parcel tracking and notification systems. With real-time data flow and seamless cross-platform communication, this transformation was achieved through collaboration with consultancy firm AppyThings and Axual's advanced event-streaming technology. Together, they enabled a centralized, API-based system to process over 100 million daily messages. API platform integration has played a pivotal role in transforming PostNL, the Netherlands' leading postal and logistics company. By modernizing its digital ecosystem, PostNL has achieved seamless communication between internal systems, external partners, and customers.

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Rachel van Egmond
September 1, 2024
Kafka Operator: De Volksbank's Path to Data-Driven Transformation
Kafka Operator: De Volksbank's Path to Data-Driven Transformation

Becoming data-driven and customer-centric in a highly regulated environment. Read the full use case about how De Volkbank became more data driven.

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Rachel van Egmond
August 23, 2024
Understanding Kafka: Message Size, Producer Examples, and Consumer Groups
Understanding Kafka: Message Size, Producer Examples, and Consumer Groups

Understanding Kafka can seem challenging, but in this blog, we simplify the concepts of Kafka’s maximum message size, how to use Kafka producers, and what consumer groups do. Ideal for beginners and those looking to expand their knowledge.

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Rachel van Egmond
August 22, 2024
Enterprise Event Streaming Platform: What is it exactly
Enterprise Event Streaming Platform: What is it exactly

Enterprise Event Streaming platforms have seen the rise of a new type of event-driven architecture over the last couple of years, called the Event Streaming Architecture.

Event Streaming
Rachel van Egmond
August 16, 2024
Use Case | Logius legacy modernization for Dutch government
Use Case | Logius legacy modernization for Dutch government

Logius, with CGI and Axual, modernizes Dutch government communication using a scalable Kafka platform for efficient, secure, and future-proof digital services, streamlining interactions between government, citizens, and businesses.

Apache Kafka Use Cases
Rachel van Egmond
August 16, 2024
Linger.ms in Kubernetes Apache Kafka
Linger.ms in Kubernetes Apache Kafka

Linger.ms in Kafka optimizes batch sending delays, balancing throughput and latency. Kafka Operators help manage this setting in Kubernetes, simplifying configuration and performance tuning for efficient data handling.

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