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Kafka Engineering
A source-guided course on Kafka protocol internals, platform ownership, KRaft and KIP-848 migrations, compatibility, portability, performance, and production failure boundaries.
active8 / 13 episodes•114 min total•advanced
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What You'll Learn
- ✓Read and debug Kafka request framing and version negotiation
- ✓Trace producer, fetch, replication, compression, and quota behavior
- ✓Plan KRaft, KIP-848, and portability migrations without false equivalence
- ✓Define ownership boundaries between platform and application teams
- ✓Diagnose production failures from protocol and operational evidence
Episodes by Track
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Protocol Internals
Implementation, wire compatibility, request flow, durability, compression, and quotas
8 posts
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Evolution & Migrations
KRaft, KIP-848, compatibility, portability, and vendor transitions
4 posts
10
Kafka 4.x Without ZooKeeper: Planning the KRaft Cutover
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11
Kafka 4.x Client Compatibility and KIP-848 Migration
🔒Under Development
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12
IBM's Confluent Acquisition: What Portability Really Means
🔒Under Development
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13
Kafka Compatibility Is Not the Same as Portability
🔒Under Development
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Production & Platform
Consumer-group ownership, platform contracts, observability, and operational boundaries
1 post
9
Kafka Consumer Groups Are Platform Infrastructure
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Prerequisites
- •Kafka fundamentals
- •Distributed systems fundamentals
- •Networking fundamentals
Who This Is For
- •backend-engineers
- •platform-engineers
- •kafka-operators
- •architects