Kafka

1. September 2, 202630 min read

   Schema Registries and Event Schemas: Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema on the Way Into the Lakehouse

   How Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema evolve through a registry, and how that maps to the schema evolution rules of Iceberg.

2. July 28, 202631 min read

   Apache Fluss and Kafka Solve Different Problems in an Iceberg Pipeline

   Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark.

3. July 6, 202630 min read

   The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast Enough

   Every path for streaming data into Iceberg in 2026, Flink, Spark, Kafka Connect, broker-native, managed pipelines, with honest latency numbers.

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