October 26, 2026 · MessagePilots
An operator removes most of the toil of running Kafka on Kubernetes, but not the decisions. Storage classes, rack awareness, KRaft node pools, and rolling-update behaviour still belong to you.
Read moreSeptember 18, 2026 · MessagePilots
Turning on authentication and authorization is the change most likely to break every client at once. The listener model, the KRaft-era authorizer, and a rollout order that keeps traffic flowing while you tighten it.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · MessagePilots
Replicating a Kafka cluster is easy to start and hard to fail over to. What MirrorMaker 2 copies, what offset translation can and cannot promise, how active/active avoids loops, and the failover rehearsal that tells you whether any of it works.
Read moreSeptember 14, 2026 · MessagePilots
Kafka 4.x ships a broker-side rebalance protocol that removes the global sync barrier and moves timeouts into group configs. What actually changes for your consumers, and a migration order that does not need a maintenance window.
Read moreMay 19, 2026
KRaft is the only controller quorum in Kafka 4.x. A field checklist for the migration: pre-flight inventory, the dual-write sequence, the finalization decision, and what to monitor after.
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