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No Access Denied: Our Transition to Kafka ACLs
No Access Denied: Our Transition to Kafka ACLs
Our Kafka modernization journey has gained momentum. The next challenge was to enhance security
Peter Nham
Feb 21
Seamless Transition: Migrating Kafka Cluster to Kubernetes
Seamless Transition: Migrating Kafka Cluster to Kubernetes
A zero-downtime process with minimal changes to clients, and minimal manual intervention that maintains data integrity and consistency
Frankie
Feb 12
Kafka: Automating Root CA rotation with Vault
Kafka: Automating Root CA rotation with Vault
Tim Cuthbertson
Dec 18, 2023
Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
Hunting down a C memory leak in a Go program
A story of metrics, confusion, and eBPF.
KJ Tsanaktsidis
Oct 6, 2021
Implementing mTLS and Securing Apache Kafka at Zendesk
Implementing mTLS and Securing Apache Kafka at Zendesk
Unauthenticated clients could connect to Kafka, which presented a security threat.
Prasenjit Kumar Nag (Joy)
Jan 20, 2021
Evaluating Apache Pulsar
Evaluating Apache Pulsar
Zendesk currently use Kafka, primarily for publishing of events. Here, we explore topic compaction across very large datasets
Luke Stephenson
Sep 24, 2020
Racecar v2: A New Foundation
Racecar v2: A New Foundation
tl;dr: Racecar v2 has switched to using rdkafka-ruby rather than ruby-kafka as the underlying Kafka client library.
Daniel Schierbeck
Sep 16, 2020
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