Causes and remedies of poison pill in Apache Kafka

A poison pill is a message deliberately sent to a Kafka topic, designed to consistently fail when consumed, regardless of the number of consumption attempts. Poison Pill scenarios are frequently […]

Apache Kafka’s built-in command line tools – A hidden gem to scan internals.

Several tools/scripts are included in the bin directory of the Apache Kafka binary installation. Even if that directory has a number of scripts, through this article I want to highlight […]