All 16 articles, sorted alphabetically
Change Data Capture in 2026
Debezium Decodable native CDC.
Read article →Dead Letter Queues
Pattern retention and re-processing.
Read article →Debezium CDC to Kafka
Capturing Postgres MySQL and MongoDB changes as event streams.
Read article →Event Sourcing vs Event Streaming
When the same word means different architectures.
Read article →Exactly-Once Semantics Across Systems
What actually gets guaranteed and where the gaps are.
Read article →Exactly-Once Semantics in Streaming
What 'exactly-once' actually means in Kafka, Flink, and Spark Structured Streaming.
Read article →Flink Checkpoint Design
Frequency, alignment, and what gets lost.
Read article →Flink State Backends Compared
RocksDB vs in-memory and when each one fails.
Read article →Kafka KRaft vs ZooKeeper
Migrating to the new Raft-based metadata quorum.
Read article →Kafka Partitioning Strategies
Pick the key wrong, regret it later.
Read article →Kafka Tiered Storage
S3-backed cold tier in production.
Read article →Kafka vs Pulsar vs Redpanda
Architecture differences between the three top streaming brokers + when each one wins.
Read article →Materialize for Streaming SQL
Incremental view maintenance over Kafka with Postgres-style queries.
Read article →Redpanda Tiered Storage
Offloading cold data to S3 while keeping hot writes local.
Read article →Schema Registry Patterns
Avro Protobuf JSON Schema in 2026.
Read article →Stream-Table Duality
Same data two views in Kafka Streams and Flink SQL.
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