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 227 4.5

Architecture

RabbitMQ for Message Queues: When It’s Still the Choice

Kafka gets the headlines as the byword for modern messaging, but RabbitMQ remains the better choice for task queues with retries, asynchronous RPC, and pub/sub with complex routing. This guide compares both against NATS, walks through classic patterns and production mistakes, and helps you decide based on the actual use case rather than the trend.

July 25, 2023 4 min 333 4.8