One of the most incredible things in Apache Kafka is that record values are shapeless, meaning that developers can write any set of bytes they want, and it works just fine. This can be pretty powerful if they share data among different programming languages. However, this characteristic is sometimes inadequate. It creates coupling problems as …
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What Apache Kafka has in Common with Rocky Balboa?
If you know me well, you must know that I am a big fan of movies. It is not uncommon to see me in situations where if I need to explain something rather complex, I end up using movies as metaphors to understand what I am trying to explain. In this post, I will explain …
Why the property ‘auto.create.topics.enable’ is disabled in Confluent Cloud?
If you ever used Apache Kafka you may know that in the broker configuration file there is a property named auto.create.topics.enable that allows topics to be automatically created when producers try to write data into it. That means that if a producer tries to write an record to a topic named customers and that topic …
Confluent Go Client with Docker
If you are reading this blog post then there is a high chance that you’ve been looking for ways to make Confluent’s Go Client for Apache Kafka work with your Docker images but you’re struggling to. Am I right?