#rebalance

2 posts.

Kafka Streams After 4.2: Two Changes That Make Failures Less Painful

Kafka Streams operations often hurt around bad records and rebalances. This post explains how DLQ support and the Streams Rebalance Protocol change the operating model after Kafka 4.2.

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Kafka 4.0 Consumer Rebalance: Coordination Moves to the Broker

Apache Kafka 4.0 made the new rebalance protocol generally available. This post explains what changes from the old protocol, why broker-side assignment matters, and what it means operationally.

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