Kafka Month-to-month Digest – July 2021 – IBM Developer

That is the forty second version of the Kafka Month-to-month Digest. On this version, I’ll cowl what occurred within the Apache Kafka neighborhood in July 2021.

For final month’s digest, see Kafka Month-to-month Digest: June 2021.

Releases

3.0.0

The discharge course of for Kafka 3.0.0 continued. Code freeze occurred on July 20. There are at the moment a handful of blocker JIRAs that should be fastened. As soon as these are addressed, Konstantine Karantasis will begin constructing the primary launch candidate.

KIPs

Final month, the neighborhood submitted 6 KIPs (KIP-760 to KIP-765), and these are those that caught my eye.

• KIP-762: Delete Dedicated Join Information. As a result of Kafka Join presents connectors for therefore many methods, it’s doable to make use of it to maneuver information from a system straight into one other. In such pipelines, Kafka is simply incidental and there’s no must preserve the info in it. The aim of this KIP is to supply a mechanism to enhance this situation and have Join mechanically delete data as soon as they’ve been written to the goal system.

• KIP-763: Vary queries with open endpoints. In Kafka Streams, a state retailer might be queried utilizing a vary. Nonetheless, Kafka Streams solely accepts closed ranges, the place each the from and to keys are specified. This KIP proposes to permit passing null for both sure to help use instances wanting to question data with a key smaller or higher a sure fixed.

On this part, I’ll cowl releases of some neighborhood tasks. This solely contains tasks which might be open supply.

Not one of the tasks I comply with have made a launch in July. If you understand a well-liked neighborhood undertaking that I don’t cowl, please let me know.

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