Hackernews posts about Kafka

Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming platform and event-driven data-processing system that enables users to process vast amounts of data in real-time.

1. Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro (blog.tansu.io)
   118 points by rmoff 9 days ago | 26 comments
2. Kafka Inc (libertiesjournal.com)
   25 points by Caiero 22 days ago | 3 comments
3. Experiments with Kafka's head-of-line blocking (2023) (www.artur-rodrigues.com)
   13 points by teleforce 15 days ago | discuss
4. Apache Kafka 2025 Wrapped (blog.2minutestreaming.com)
   5 points by mesto1 30 days ago | 1 comments
5. Show HN: Kafka-compatible streaming on S3 with stateless brokers
   3 points by 2pk03 23 days ago | 2 comments
6. Show HN: Continuous learning from streaming events (Kafka and online ML) (github.com)
   2 points by dcris19710101 23 days ago | 1 comments
7. The Kafkaesque German Bureaucracy (eidel.io)
   2 points by olieidel about 10 hours ago | discuss
8. Apache Kafka for Ultra‑Low‑Latency Trading (www.confluent.io)
   2 points by intrepidsoldier 3 days ago | discuss
9. Kafka Dead Letter Queue Triage: Debugging 25,000 Failed Messages (skey.uk)
   2 points by tanelpoder 8 days ago | discuss
10. Side Stepping Head of Line Blocking in Kafka Consumers (2025) (medium.com)
    2 points by teleforce 15 days ago | discuss
11. Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a Free T3.micro (AWS Free Tier) (blog.tansu.io)
    2 points by enether 15 days ago | discuss
12. From COBOL to Kafka. A quick guide to event producer – by Anthony Papageorgiou (medium.com)
    2 points by rbanffy 24 days ago | discuss
13. Achieving Kafka reliability at scale with the Streaming Platform (2025) (www.datadoghq.com)
    1 points by teleforce 15 days ago | discuss
14. S3-backed Kafka, ephemeral brokers, no partition shuffles, K8s native (kafscale.io)
    1 points by 2pk03 22 days ago | discuss
15. Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store (github.com)
    76 points by shikhar 8 days ago | 20 comments
16. Ask HN: How do you do store-and-forward telemetry at the edge?
    8 points by Aydarbek 22 days ago | 3 comments
17. Show HN: I built an AI book recommender in 2 days (mynextbook.ai)
    4 points by PouyaRZ 8 days ago | 2 comments
18. Show HN: EventFlux – Lightweight stream processing engine in Rust (github.com)
    3 points by grainier 28 days ago | discuss
19. Show HN: A Bento-based service for reliably streaming usage events into billing (twitter.com)
    2 points by sudeepsd__ 22 days ago | 1 comments
20. Show HN: Spine – an execution-centric backend framework for Go (spine.na2ru2.me)
    2 points by narubrown 3 days ago | discuss
21. Show HN: Hot Dev – a new backend workflow language and platform (hot.dev)
    1 points by csummers about 14 hours ago | discuss
22. Show HN: Carlton × CMP Signature AR NUME (github.com)
    1 points by aroheir 6 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: Goxe – High-performance log reducer to lower observability costs (github.com)
    1 points by nxus_dev 10 days ago | discuss
24. Show HN: Stove – Kotlin-first E2E testing for JVM Back end apps(Ktor,SpringBoot) (github.com)
    1 points by osoykan 16 days ago | discuss
25. Show HN: Actionbase – A database for likes, views, follows at 1M+ req/min (github.com)
    8 points by em3s 2 days ago | 5 comments
26. Simulating 3D flocks from scratch using Three.js (kawka.dev)
    2 points by zukerpie 13 days ago | discuss
27. Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres (topicpartition.io)
    561 points by enether 3 months ago | 401 comments
28. What If We Could Rebuild Kafka from Scratch? (www.morling.dev)
    254 points by mpweiher 9 months ago | 220 comments
29. Why was Apache Kafka created? (bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
    201 points by enether 5 months ago | 221 comments
30. Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka (github.com)
    164 points by sauljp over 1 year ago | 41 comments
31. Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust (github.com)
    160 points by janicerk about 2 months ago | 48 comments
32. Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector (www.geocod.io)
    136 points by mjwhansen 4 months ago | 28 comments
33. Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get? (broot.ca)
    133 points by alexwebr 11 months ago | 139 comments
34. Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch) (github.com)
    103 points by charlie-haley about 2 months ago | 21 comments
35. Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka (streamnative.io)
    98 points by netpaladinx 6 months ago | 37 comments
36. Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
    84 points by anarbadalov about 1 year ago | 12 comments
37. Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse (github.com)
    78 points by super_ar 9 months ago | 32 comments
38. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing (sql-flow.com)
    77 points by dm03514 about 2 months ago | 13 comments
39. 'Kafkaesque': bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam (www.theguardian.com)
    73 points by chrisjj over 1 year ago | 75 comments
40. The impossibility of translating Franz Kafka (1999) (www.newyorker.com)
    69 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | 45 comments
41. Tiered storage won't fix Kafka (www.warpstream.com)
    65 points by itunpredictable over 1 year ago | 31 comments
42. A Fork in the Road: Deciding Kafka's Diskless Future (jack-vanlightly.com)
    59 points by g0xA52A2A 3 months ago | 2 comments
43. Show HN: AutoMQ - A Cost-Effective Kafka Distro That Can Autoscale in Seconds (github.com)
    58 points by wanshao almost 2 years ago | 23 comments
44. How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API (www.propeldata.com)
    57 points by acossta almost 2 years ago | 22 comments
45. Franz Kafka – the workers' friend (2018) (marywcraig.com)
    53 points by robtherobber 12 months ago | 4 comments
46. How to Get Remote Code Execution in Kafka UI (github.blog)
    52 points by jandeboevrie over 1 year ago | 6 comments
47. Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Kafka Passwords (github.com)
    50 points by jovezhong 11 months ago | 13 comments
48. Show HN: Kafbat UI for Apache Kafka v1.0 is out (github.com)
    47 points by haarolean almost 2 years ago | 2 comments
49. Show HN: Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka (github.com)
    45 points by Bogdanp almost 2 years ago | 5 comments
50. "You Don't Need Kafka, Just Use Postgres" Considered Harmful (www.morling.dev)
    39 points by ingve 3 months ago | 43 comments
51. The Kafka Replication Protocol with KIP-966 (github.com)
    37 points by tanelpoder 5 months ago | 6 comments
52. The Special Challenges of Attempting a New Translation of Kafka (lithub.com)
    36 points by lermontov over 1 year ago | 13 comments
53. Apache Kafka 4.0 Released (kafka.apache.org)
    35 points by mumrah 11 months ago | 3 comments
54. Data Infrastructure for All: Free Kafka and $5 PostgreSQL (aiven.io)
    33 points by alanfranz about 2 months ago | 2 comments
55. KIP-1150: Diskless Kafka Topics (cwiki.apache.org)
    32 points by enether 10 months ago | 3 comments
56. Rewriting Kafka in Rust (wangjunfei.com)
    30 points by chuckhend 7 months ago | 6 comments