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/kafka
Posts touching kafka.
3 posts
- September 3, 2025 5 min
Running Kafka at startup scale is a decision you will regret exactly once
Kafka was justified for our payment event streaming. The operational burden in year two consumed a disproportionate share of platform bandwidth.
- /kafka
- /architecture
- /startup-life
- /financeops
- /learning
- March 24, 2025 4 min
Our Kafka consumer lag crisis and why I stopped trusting "it works on my machine" for event-driven systems
Consumer lag grew silently for two weeks because local dev processed events instantly while production dealt with partition rebalancing and back-pressure from a slow downstream service.
- /kafka
- /observability
- /architecture
- /financeops
- /blog
- January 20, 2025 5 min
Migrating from REST to a hybrid REST/event architecture without stopping the train
Our reconciliation engine needed async event processing but API consumers expected synchronous responses. The strangler fig pattern applied to a fintech data pipeline.
- /kafka
- /architecture
- /api-design
- /node
- /blog