The Confluent Schema Registry plays a pivotal role in ensuring that producers and consumers in a streaming platform are able to communicate effectively. Ensuring the consistent use of schemas and their versions allows producers and consumers to easily interoperate, even when schemas evolve over time.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.6.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

Ever dealt with a misbehaving consumer group? Imbalanced broker load? This could be due to your consumer group and partitioning strategy! Once, on a dark and stormy night, I set myself up for this error. I was creating an application to demonstrate how you can use Apache Kafka® to decouple microservices. The function of my “microservices” was to create latte objects for a restaurant ordering service.