Technical Blogs & Articles - Kafka, Data Streaming & More

Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka 4.4.0: What’s New & What It Means for Production Systems
Explore Apache Kafka 4.4.0, including dead-letter queues for share groups, KRaft improvements, transactional Kafka Streams state stores & upgrade considerations

Sugam Sharma

Condense Apps
AI Agent
How We Built a Website Assistant on Vapr and Deployed It on Condense
How we built a prod-ready AI assistant for zeliot.in using Vapr, answers product questions, books meetings, surfaces blogs & eBooks, and more

Sachin Kamath

Design Blog
Framer
How We Built an Automated RSS Feed for Our Framer Website Without a Plugin
Framer does not support RSS natively. Here is how we built a fully automated RSS feed for our blog using a Node.js script, GitLab CI & Netlify.

Sachin Kamath

Apache Kafka
Technology
Kafka Streams: A Production Guide to Joins, Aggregations, and Stateful Processing
A complete guide to Kafka Streams joins, windowed aggregations, state stores, and exactly-once semantics. With code examples for production stream processing.

Sugam Sharma

Technology
Apache Kafka
Kafka Microservices Patterns: Saga, Competing Consumers, and Event Notification Explained
A complete guide to Kafka microservices patterns: Event Notification, Event-Carried State Transfer, Competing Consumers, Request-Reply with implementation guide

Sachin Kamath
