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Optimizing Kafka Streams Applications

Confluent

With the release of Apache Kafka ® 2.1.0, Kafka Streams introduced the processor topology optimization framework at the Kafka Streams DSL layer. In what follows, we provide some context around how a processor topology was generated inside Kafka Streams before 2.1, Kafka Streams topology generation 101.

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Apache Kafka Rebalance Protocol for the Cloud: Static Membership

Confluent

Static Membership is an enhancement to the current rebalance protocol that aims to reduce the downtime caused by excessive and unnecessary rebalances for general Apache Kafka ® client implementations. This applies to Kafka consumers, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams. Take a Kafka consumer, for example.

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Shoulder Surfers Beware: Confluent Now Provides Cross-Platform Secret Protection

Confluent

For Apache Kafka ® , in which services read configuration files on startup, the question arises: how should you protect these secrets? introduces a simple solution for secret encryption. Generate the master encryption key based on a passphrase. Before Confluent Platform 5.3, Confluent Platform 5.3 How Secret Protection works.