— functionality to assign replicas to brokers so they can span multiple racks or availability zones, and many other new features.

— an additional field inside the message that enables log retention and rolling as well as stream processing based on event-time,

is the newest major release of Apache Kafka , which includes more than 400

introduces the first commercial product through the Confluent Platform offering — Control Center, for comprehensive management and monitoring of Apache Kafka . Read this

Kafka Connect contributions have been growing rapidly over the past month! Checkout this new

this month! Enrico Canzonieri and Usman Masood gave great presentations on operating Kafka at scale and executing continuous SQL queries on top of Kafka, respectively.

Thanks to Yelp for hosting the

how to stream data integration with Kafka Connect

using event streams and Kafka for keeping data in sync across heterogeneous systems

If you want to learn more about applying Kafka for real-time data analysis, read this

article

for a production use case in online anomaly detection, and also this

talk

about using Kafka and Samza for spam detection, and also this

blog post

about using Kafka and Flink to migrate your batch jobs to streaming.