A New Kafka Viewer for a Better Debugging Workflow
A new Kafka viewer tool for debugging—inspect messages and schemas, watch consumer groups, replay records, and test in one workspace.
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Kafka Transactions, Idempotence, and Exactly-Once Semantics
What Kafka idempotence, transactions, and exactly-once semantics guarantee, where they stop, and how to fix transactions that block consumers.
Kafka Dead Letter Queue: Spring, Connect & Streams
The Kafka consumer API has no dead letter queue. Compare DLQs in Spring Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams, and learn how to replay failed records.
Flink vs Kafka Streams 2026: Which Should You Use?
Flink vs Kafka Streams: a library inside your app or a separate runtime. Compare deployment, state, scaling, event time, exactly-once, and ksqlDB.
Kafka Streams in Java: Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Stream
Run Kafka Streams in plain Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Stream, or Quarkus. Compare Maven dependencies, state stores, and testing.
Kafka PHP Clients 2026: php-rdkafka, Laravel & Symfony
php-rdkafka 7.0 is in alpha; its last stable shipped in 2024. Compare Kafka PHP clients: php-rdkafka, Laravel Kafka, Symfony Messenger, and Enqueue.
Kafka C/C++ Clients: librdkafka vs modern-cpp-kafka
modern-cpp-kafka was archived in July 2026; cppkafka last shipped in Jan 2024. Compare Kafka C/C++ clients: librdkafka's C and C++ APIs and wrappers.
Kafka C#/.NET Clients: Confluent.Kafka vs KafkaFlow
MassTransit v9 is now commercial. Compare Kafka clients for C# and .NET: Confluent.Kafka, KafkaFlow, MassTransit, and Dekaf.
Kafka Rust Clients: rdkafka vs rskafka vs krafka
kafka-rust last shipped in 2023, and rskafka has no consumer groups. Compare Rust Kafka clients: rdkafka, rskafka, and krafka.
Kafka REST Proxy: Confluent vs Karapace vs Strimzi
Kafka has no REST API for records. Compare Confluent REST Proxy, Karapace, and Strimzi Kafka Bridge: auth, license, consumer recovery.
Best Kafka CLI Tools in 2026: kcat vs kafkactl vs kaf
kcat has not shipped a release since 2021. Compare the best Kafka CLI tools in 2026: kafkactl, kcl, kaf, rpk, Confluent CLI, and Kafka scripts.