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The Apache Kafka community just concluded its busiest month ever. As we are preparing for the upcoming release of Kafka 0.9.0.0, the community worked together to close a record number of bugs and added quite a few last-minute improvements to new features. Here’s a summary of some of the community highlights:
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In this post, the second in the Kafka Producer and Consumer Internals Series, we follow our brave hero—a well-formed produce request—which is on its way to be processed by the broker and have its data stored on the cluster.
The beauty of Kafka as a technology is that it can do a lot with little effort on your part. In effect, it’s a black box. But what if you need to see into the black box to debug something? This post shows what the producer does behind the scenes to help prepare your raw event data for the broker.