José David Baena – Software Engineer https://josedavidbaena.com Personal website and blog where I document thoughts, ideas, and interests in software engineering, web performance, and open source technologies. en-us josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/performance-engineering Benchmarking Redpanda: A Reproducible Systems Method https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/performance-engineering A reproducible Redpanda benchmark controls load, durability, clients, cache state, and failures before interpreting latency or throughput. Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandaperformanceseastarbenchmarkinglatency https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/cluster-management Redpanda Cluster Control: raft0, Moves, and Limits https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/cluster-management Redpanda's raft0 controller orders cluster metadata; broker lifecycle, balancing, feature gates, and partition limits define its operational envelope. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandacluster-managementcontrollerraftdistributed-systems https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/serialization-rpc Redpanda Internal RPC: Versioned Bytes Between Brokers https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/serialization-rpc Redpanda's internal Serde and RPC protocols version broker messages, bound parsing, share buffer fragments selectively, and apply backpressure before writes. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandaserializationrpcnetworkingc++ https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/webassembly-transforms Redpanda Data Transforms: Boundaries of In-Broker Wasm https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/webassembly-transforms Redpanda Data Transforms run core-local Wasm after input commit, with at-least-once delivery, bounded resources, and deliberate limits on state and I/O. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandawasmtransformsstreamingdata-processing https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/tiered-storage Redpanda Tiered Storage: Local Writes, Remote Reads https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/tiered-storage Redpanda Tiered Storage uploads stable local segments asynchronously, serves old offsets through a disk cache, and separates local from remote retention. Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandatiered-storagekafkaobject-storageretention https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/storage-engine Redpanda Storage: Logs, Offsets, Recovery, Compaction https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/storage-engine Redpanda stores Raft metadata and Kafka-visible records in segmented logs while indexes, offset translation, and recovery preserve the client view. Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandastoragelog-structured-storagekafkadistributed-systems https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/raft-implementation Redpanda Raft: From Acknowledgement to Durable Media https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/raft-implementation Redpanda maps Kafka acknowledgements onto Raft while replication, commit, visibility, and durable-media flush remain separate guarantees. Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandaraftconsensusreplicationdistributed-systems https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/architecture-overview Redpanda Architecture: Kafka Outside, Shards Inside https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/exploration-redpanda/architecture-overview Redpanda presents Kafka APIs outside while sharded C++, per-partition Raft, and raft0 define the implementation and operational boundaries inside. Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) redpandakafkaarchitectureseastardistributed-systems