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Release blog 2025.1 - The Spring Release

Axual 2025.1 is here with exciting new features and updates. Whether you're strengthening security, improving observability, or bridging old legacy systems with modern event systems, like Kafka, Axual 2025.1 is built to keep you, your fellow developers, and engineers ahead of the game.

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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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Richard Bosch
November 1, 2024
Kafka Topics and Partitions - The building blocks of Real Time Data Streaming
Kafka Topics and Partitions - The building blocks of Real Time Data Streaming

Apache Kafka is a powerful platform for handling real-time data streaming, often used in systems that follow the Publish-Subscribe (Pub-Sub) model. In Pub-Sub, producers send messages (data) that consumers receive, enabling asynchronous communication between services. Kafka’s Pub-Sub model is designed for high throughput, reliability, and scalability, making it a preferred choice for applications needing to process massive volumes of data efficiently. Central to this functionality are topics and partitions—essential elements that organize and distribute messages across Kafka. But what exactly are topics and partitions, and why are they so important?

Event Streaming
Jimmy Kusters
October 31, 2024
How to use Strimzi Kafka: Opening a Kubernetes shell on a broker pod and listing all topics
How to use Strimzi Kafka: Opening a Kubernetes shell on a broker pod and listing all topics

Strimzi Kafka offers an efficient solution for deploying and managing Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, making it easier to handle Kafka clusters within a Kubernetes environment. In this article, we'll guide you through opening a shell on a Kafka broker pod in Kubernetes and listing all the topics in your Kafka cluster using an SSL-based connection.

Strimzi Kafka
Abhinav Sonkar
October 25, 2024
Kafka Operator for Kubernetes: Simplifying Kafka Deployments
Kafka Operator for Kubernetes: Simplifying Kafka Deployments

Kafka Operators for Kubernetes makes deploying and managing Kafka clusters simpler and more reliable. In this blog, we will do a deep dive into what a Kafka operator is and why you should use a Kafka operator.

Kubernetes
Richard Bosch
October 15, 2024
Understanding the Kafka Bootstrap Server
Understanding the Kafka Bootstrap Server

This blog dives into the bootstrap server's role, its purpose, how it facilitates client connections, and why it’s vital for Kafka’s fault-tolerant, scalable design.

Event Streaming
Rachel van Egmond
October 1, 2024
API-First: Building the foundation for modern applications
API-First: Building the foundation for modern applications

API-first approach has emerged as a strategic methodology that prioritizes the design and development of APIs as the foundation for building applications. Combined with Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, this approach becomes even more powerful, enabling organizations to create scalable, real-time, and event-driven systems.

Apache Kafka for Business
Rachel van Egmond
October 1, 2024
Release blog 2024.3 - the Autumn release
Release blog 2024.3 - the Autumn release

Let’s dive into the highlights of the 2024.3 release and see how we’re equipping you to confidently handle the next season of data challenges.

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