Heading to Current in San Francisco? We’re giving 3 talks Nov 4-5: OpenLineage, Kafka ops from the terminal, and multi-tenant Kafka with TD Bank. Come say hi
Move MirrorMaker 2 onto Kafka Connect the obvious way and you'll re-replicate every record from offset zero.
Our guide covers seeding offsets, why offset translation is off by default, and a cutover order that keeps it uneventful.
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Join our first New at Factor House series starting tomorrow. Come along to see live previews of new agent skills for Kafka operations, and more. Link in comments.
Kafka DLQs often mean adding a stream processor or retry service. But you can handle retries and DLQs consumer-side using Kafka alone, with per-consumer-group topics so failed messages only replay to the group that failed. No extra infrastructure. Link in the thread.
Three nines of availability still allows almost 9 hours of downtime a year. Chad Harris (Factor House) & Justin George (NetApp Instaclustr) break down what SLA tiers really cost when comparing Confluent Cloud, MSK, and open source Kafka.
