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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Woot, woot! 🎉 "Current San Francisco 2026: Your session has been accepted!" Excited to share the stage with Lucas Brutschy to talk about "Keeping the Balance with Kafka Streams" (KIP-1071), ie, how we are going to support warmup tasks and are building high-availability features.

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We are happy to announce our latest committer Jiunn-Yang (Ken) Huang! Please join us to congratulate him!

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Separate GoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns were set up to assist Arrate and the Kieffer family.“

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Cybertruck? Maybe. But only if they offer it with higher resolution.

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Vibe coding is like throwing a hammer at a nail from 10ft and hope for the best.

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Another very interesting episode on @thegeeknarrator.bsky.social Curious to see how AI will change software engineering in the next 10+ years. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Future of Coding with AI ft. Andrey Breslav

Podcast Episode · The GeekNarrator · August 4 · 1h 15m

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 17/07/2026

Hey, we launched a new blog :) It's even got an RSS feed! 100% technical content, covering Kafka, Flink, and much more. 👉🏻 developer.confluent.io/blog/

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Apache Kafka 4.3.1 was released. It contains a critical memory-leak bug fix for #KafkaStreams. Thanks to our RM Bill Bejeck for the quick turnaround on this downloads.apache.org/kafka/4.3.1/...

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Below is a summary of the JIRA issues addressed in the 4.3.1 release of Kafka. For full documentation of the release, a guide to get started, and information about the project, see the Kafka project site.

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I state corrected… the deadline was just extended today to June/28.

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Apache Kafka 4.2.1 landed. It contains a critical broker side bug-fix for the new “streams” group. If you did hold back so far, it’s time to upgrade and adopt now! downloads.apache.org/kafka/4.2.1/...

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Below is a summary of the JIRA issues addressed in the 4.2.1 release of Kafka. For full documentation of the release, a guide to get started, and information about the project, see the Kafka project site.

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Lucia Cerchie @luciacerchie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We built some agent skills to help people use Flink, Kafka Streams, and Kafka clients, as well as Tableflow. LMK what you think! github.com/confluentinc...

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agent-skills/skills at main · confluentinc/agent-skills

AI agent skills for stream processing and event streaming - confluentinc/agent-skills

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 19/05/2026

I'm having a @kafkastreams.bsky.social theme at #Current26, so I'm kicking things off with a talk about record headers in Kafka Streams state stores

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 19/05/2026

Next up at #Current26: Writing Supersonic Kafka apps using @quarkus.io

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Continuing the rebalancing theme at #Current26, with a talk on the challenges of large rebalances in Kafka Streams and moving to KIP-1071 based rebalances

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Another Kafka Streams talk at #Current26, this time from Michelin around KS automatic resource naming and all the "fun" that comes from that

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Tom Cooper @tomcooper.dev · 20/05/2026

Last breakout session of #Current26 is sticking with my Kafka Streams theme, a walkthrough of designing a production grade application based on Kafka Streams

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 20/05/2026

Happy birthday #kafkastreams! Ten year celebration at #current26

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

#KafkaStreams compatible single-node stream processing. Very interesting. #deFactoStandard

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Great comparison of „classic“ and „streams“ rebalancing. Pretty much sums it up.

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If you are at #Current this week, join us to celebrate! What a milestone!

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

You are coming to #Current London in May? We are having an #ApacheKafka AMA at the meetup hub on Tuesday with some committers and PMC members. Stop by to ask your questions or just listen in. /1

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but using `var` is for lazy people. #notAFan

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

With the recent #ApacheKafka 4.2 release, the new "streams" rebalance protocol is production ready. It's exciting that it's also GA on Confluent Cloud now. The cherry-on-top is, that our #KafkaStreams Cloud UI now also shows task assignment information for "streams" groups. \1

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The recent 4.2 release is one of the largest milestones for Kafka Streams so far. The new “streams” groups introduce Kafka Streams specific RPCs into the protocol, making Kafka Streams more than just a wrapper around consumer/producer clients, and a first class citizen. \1

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We are happy to announce that Andrew Schofield accepted our invitation to join the PMC. Congratulations Andrew!

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We are happy to announce that Christo Lolov accepted our invitation to join the PMC. Congratulations Christo!

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We are happy to announce that Kamal Chandraprakash accepted our invitation to join the PMC. Congratulations Kamal!

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

We are happy to announce that Lianet Magrans accepted our invitation to join the PMC. Congratulations Lianet!

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We are happy to announce Apache Kafka 4.2.0! Highlights are: Queues for Kafka and the new #KafkaStreams "streams" groups. Thanks to all the 155 contributors and our RM Christo Lolov. More details on the web page: kafka.apache.org/blog/2026/01...

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Apache Kafka 4.2.0 Release Announcement

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 4.2. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of c...

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We have two new open positions on our team (#ApacheKafka Java Clients and #KafkaStreams) in Canada 🇨🇦 Entry level: jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/67... Senior: jobs.ashbyhq.com/confluent/26...

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Kafka Streams @kafkastreams.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

There is a new KIP-1244 proposing to deprecate the Kafka Streams Scala API, and remove it with the next major release. Please join the discussion on the dev mailing list if this concerns you.

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I had the pleasure to get an „early access“, and have to say, it’s a great book! #KafkaStreams

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Matthias J. Sax 🦦 @mjsax.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We are backing up a larger KIP for Kafka Streams. Exciting! …headers… cough. Stay tuned. Maybe a we can publish it as a holiday present.

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Yennick Trevels @digitalbuff.dev · 02/12/2025

🚀 I've built a new interactive simulation of #Kafka Streams, showcasing state stores! See state stores being restored, switch between RocksDB & in-memory state store behavior,restart tasks. Great for understanding or explaining Kafka Streams! Try it here: kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/tools/state-...

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Yennick Trevels @digitalbuff.dev · 17/11/2025

Just published my #KafkaStreams news summary! 🔥 Highlights: 4.1.1 bug-fix release, upcoming DLQ feature for Kafka Streams, new Streams UI in Confluent Cloud, Current sessions, & more. kafkastreamsfieldguide.com/articles/kaf... #ApacheKafka

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Kafka Streams News - November 2025 | Kafka Streams Field Guide Book

Latest news and content from the Kafka Streams community for November 2025

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