The Responsive Blog

A practical guide for developers building stateful Kafka Streams applications with exactly-once semantics enabled. It covers how exactly-once semantics work, how to tune your transactions, and how to solve common issues with the exactly-once system.

All the ways to find us at Kafka Summit London 2024.

Kafka Streams comes bundled with hundreds of metrics - this post will cover the “highest ROI” metrics to include on your dashboard.

In this post, we will dig deeper into what differentiates Kafka Streams and drives its popularity. Spoiler alert: we think its popularity stems from being akin to a powerful application framework.

A sampling of some of the production use cases of Kakfa Streams from Walmart, AirBnb, Morgan Stanley, and Michelin.

A history lesson on how the rebalance protocol in Apache Kafka has evolved over the years, and why. Distributed systems enthusiasts will love this.

For everyone who is in too deep and wants to peel back the curtains on one of the most elegant yet maddening aspects of Apache Kafka: the consumer group rebalancing protocol.

How Responsive Control Plane automatically manages Kafka Streams so you don't have to.

Capacity planning and operating your Kafka Streams application can be quite challenging. Hopefully this guide can help you get started and point you in the right direction.

A definitive guide to managing Kafka Streams state that covers some history, architecture concepts and many tips to prevent panic in the face of long restoration and rebalances.

Introducing our new company, Responsive