Basics • February 17, 2022 • 4 min read
Message Brokers — An Introduction
What message brokers are, why distributed systems need them, and how to choose between Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, and friends for your use case.
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Highload • January 24, 2022 • 4 min read
Kafka Streams — When It's Right and When It's Overkill
A pragmatic intro to Kafka Streams — what it is, what it gives you over plain consumers, and the honest operational cost.
Highload • July 26, 2021 • 4 min read
Kafka Consumer Rebalancing — The Details That Bite
How consumer groups actually work, what triggers a rebalance, and the configuration that turns rebalances from outages into smooth handoffs.
Highload • January 19, 2021 • 4 min read
Kafka Partitions and Ordering — What Actually Happens
The mental model for Kafka partitions, how ordering works (and doesn't), and the partition-key choices that determine everything downstream.