Kafka in 2023: Event Streaming in the Enterprise

Apache Kafka has consolidated in 2023 as the enterprise event backbone thanks to KRaft, now GA and removing the ZooKeeper dependency. The most mature patterns are CDC with Debezium, event sourcing, and stream processing with Kafka Streams or Flink, while Redpanda and Pulsar compete as real alternatives depending on the case.

August 30, 2023 4 min 226 4.5

Methodologies

Contract Testing with Pact for Microservices

With 30 or more microservices, end-to-end tests become slow, fragile and impractical. Pact implements consumer-driven contract testing: the consumer defines what it expects, the provider verifies it in its own CI pipeline, with no shared environment needed. The result is integration proof in seconds, not minutes.

July 22, 2023 5 min 237 4.6