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Kafka without ZooKeeper: KRaft in production

Kafka 4.0 llegó en marzo con la promesa cumplida: el clúster se autoadministra sin ZooKeeper. Después de meses operando clústeres KRaft y de la migración obligada, qué cambia de verdad, dónde duelen las diferencias y qué hay que saber antes de migrar.

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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.