Apache Kafka in the Media
7 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters
October 2026
From 40 seconds to under 10: rebuilding incident detection on OpenTelemetry, Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink on Kubernetes
Every SaaS company has the same uncomfortable question after a major incident: who noticed first, the monitoring or the customers? For a long time our honest…
Exorcising Ghost Apache Kafka Controllers
How We Fixed Apache Kafka’s Controller Unregistration Deadlock
September 2026
From 40 seconds to under 10: rebuilding incident detection on OpenTelemetry, Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink on Kubernetes
Every SaaS company has the same uncomfortable question after a major incident: who noticed first, the monitoring or the customers? For a long time our honest answer was “it depends”. This post describes how a small...
Never lose quorum in Apache Kafka® - and what to do when you do
If you're using Apache Kafka® with KRaft, then you probably understand the importance of controller quorum in keeping things working. But what to do when that goes wrong?
August 2026
Pay For What You Stream: New Aiven For Apache Kafka® Pricing
Aiven launches consumption-based pricing for Apache Kafka. Pick throughput, retention and topic type. Pay for compute, storage and network. Nothing else.
Deploying Apache Kafka® Streams next to your data
Get a complete, working Apache Kafka® Streams example for Avro messages, and deploy it as an Aiven App linked to your Karapace schema registry.
Skills as Guardrails: Contributing to Apache Kafka® with AI, Without Knowing Every Module
What makes AI-assisted work on Kafka safer isn't the AI knowing every module. It's giving the AI a set of clear rules to follow.
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See Apache Kafka in context: The SaaS Press Index 2026
We analyzed 6,704 press mentions across 290 outlets to rank which SaaS tools win coverage. Find Apache Kafka's position relative to the 488 most-covered tools.
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