Deal of the Day April 24: Now in print! Save 45% on my book Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition, and other selected titles Manning Publications: mng.bz/WrEx Kafka Streams Apache Kafka

The committer pool keeps growing! Please welcome Igor Soarez! Congrats Igor. We are happy to have you!

We are constantly adding new committers. It’s very important to ensure project health. Sounds interesting? Checkout “How to become and committer” on the webpage as a first step: kafka.apache.org/contributing.h… And let us know if you have questions. We are happy help.

Apache Kafka meeting in the Twin Cities on May 15 includes Bill Bejeck of Confluent doing a book signing of "Kafka Streams in Action, 2nd Ed". Be one of the first 40, and get a free signed copy. meetup.com/TwinCities-Apa…

So, in 16 days Bill Bejeck will be in town for a book signing. The last time I saw him do a book signing was for the 1st edition at Kafka Summit in SF. The line was long! If you are in the Twin Cities, you can just come to SmartThings - super easy! meetup.com/twincities-apa…

We are looking for a product manager for our team, who will focus on #KafkaStreams -- It's a great opportunity to work with a team of world-class engineers and to push the boundaries how our users build event-driven applications! linkedin.com/jobs/view/3709…

Our monthly "#KafkaStreams Fan Club Hangout" is getting more professional. We have an official agenda document now. docs.google.com/document/d/1gp… Thanks Sophie Blee-Goldman for taking the lead! Sounds interesting? Drop a DM to Sophie or myself, and we can add you to the event.

In the last 3 months, these meetings have covered KIP-892 which dramatically improves availability with EOS in KStreams by not wiping state on an unclean shutdown, and KIP-924 which enables a pluggable task assignor. Designs are discussed, progress is made, the community grows!

BOOM Baby! Come watch Matthias J. Sax 🦦 and I chat about sliding windows, sanitation trucks and sleep apnea masks! Remember to leave questions in the comments so we can answer them in future episodes!

This is huge! — And I immediately see a long list of follow up KIPs to build on this in the years to come. Kudos to Lucas Brutschy and Bruno Cadonna for putting this together!

New on the blog: Harnessing Interactive Queries V2 in #KafkaStreams ! Dive into our practical guide and discover the power of queries and state stores for real-time insights and scalable analytics. #ApacheKafka #DataStreaming medium.com/bakdata/harnes…

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Bill Bejeck at the co-hosted AWS / Front Range Platform Engineering meetup group in Denver

Matthias J. Sax 🦦 presenting on the details of Kafka Streams at at the co-hosted AWS / Front Range meetup

🚨New Video Alert!🚨 Giving back to #openSource can be intimidating. You may think your code needs to be perfect or your idea be fully fleshed out. But the ideal contributor might surprise you... Greg Harris offers insights from the perspective of the #apacheKafka project. 👇

Want to help us improve #KafkaStreams on Confluent Cloud? Share your thoughts in this short survey (under 5 minutes): forms.gle/M9CqqAQqV1G8yA… Thanks Daniel (Kafka Streams PM Confluent) for setting this up!

I just published What I learned from writing a book link.medium.com/A7G2wsOr6Nb

I am soon interviewing Apurva Mehta from Responsive and Yingjun Wu 🤘 from RisingWave, on all things stream processing. This is going to be an amazing episode. Feel free to ask any questions related to Stream processing and I will add the most interesting ones. Shoot!

I am quite excited about the future of Kafka Streams. KIPs 892, 1035, and 1071, along with ongoing progress with the State Updater, will continue to make it easier to manage.

Hello Apache Kafka 3.9.0! - last release using ZooKeeper - tiered storage is production-ready Plus many more KIPs, improvements, and bug-fixes. For details, check out the release blog post: kafka.apache.org/blog#apache_ka… Thanks to 133 contributors and our RM Colin Patrick McCabe!