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What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3

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Apache Foundation version ftw:

https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/entry/what-s-new-in-apache

Wow, I've seen those little chat assistants that live in the corners of web pages before, but this is the first one that plays a continuously looping animation with flashing lights while I try to read an article. Sadly, the bot doesn't understand the command "go away"... it just asks for my email address so a real person can follow up later.

Anyways, the performance improvements for resuming after an ungraceful shutdown sound nice.

This chat pop up covered the "OK" button for the cookie warning on my display. So essentially I only had 90% of my vertical resolution to read this article.

Sadly, 90% can be considered a lot nowadays. It's not uncommon for me to find websites who manage to cover more than 50% of their layout with useless shit. Sigh.

Drove me nuts after opening a new tab to read it - the tab kept flashing that I had a new message. Closed the tab before reading.

The flashing tab on this site is absolutely abysmal. Who thought this was a good idea.

> You have (1) new message!

What is this, a "local singles in my area" scam site or an interesting blog? And it's a message to ask if you need help no less!

Lovers of Kafka may be interested to know that thanks to Mingmin Xu, Apache Calcite's latest release adds an adapter for Apache Kafka. Calcite allows you to write optimized SQL queries against a variety of data sources and is used by Apache Hive, Apache Drill, and others.

https://calcite.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/calcite/adapte...

Much better source: https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/entry/what-s-new-in-apache

Confluent maven repo seems unusable for all people behind a Nexus proxying external repos, which is AFAIK a very common case. So what is the problem in making the maven repo browsable?

This could be solved by making http://packages.confluent.io/maven browsable. Is there a reason that this hasn't been done?

Why cant a company like confluent fix one of the most basic issues for such a long time ?

https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry/issues/759

I am waiting for an event bus. Why a messaging product does not have an event bus?

I don't understand what you're waiting for. You can easily build an event bus using a Kafka topic.

An event bus of Kafka internal events. Like „consumer group rebalanced“, „topic created“...

Ah yep, with you now. While I know you can register a consumer rebalance listener, tools that respond to changes in topic configs seem to do so by polling - e.g., Mirrormaker 2. https://github.com/ryannedolan/kafka/blob/KIP-382/connect/mi...

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