We write things down and we build small open source pieces. This is where both live. Have a look — and tell us what you think.
Kafka's most important lessons live in the transitions: before and after a broker dies, before and after the ISR shrinks. We built a browser-based simulator so you can break a cluster safely and watch exactly why it reacts the way it does.
Moving an existing Kafka estate from ACLs to Confluent RBAC is a risk-management exercise, not a syntax conversion. Here's a safe, auditable, repeatable migration workflow — and the tool we built for it.
Why Kafka metrics are painful, why JMX dashboards often show no data, and how to export Kafka metrics natively over OTLP.
A safe, auditable command-line tool for converting Apache Kafka ACLs into Confluent RBAC role bindings. Plans are checksummed and effective access is verified before anything is applied.
A Kafka MetricsReporter plugin that ships broker and client metrics over OTLP to an OpenTelemetry collector. Async and fail-safe — collector outages never block Kafka.