Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win
How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin's hot path
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Visualizing Avro Kafka Data in Grafana: Streaming Real-Time Schemas
Hey everyone, if you've been following along from my last post on streaming JSON into Grafana with the Kafka Datasource plugin, you know how awesome it is to watch real-time data light up your dashboards. Today, we're leveling up to Avro; that compac...
Feb 15, 20268 min read109
Visualizing Kafka Data in Grafana: Consuming Real-Time Messages for Dashboards
Ever tried visualizing data with Grafana? Whether you’re building a simple dashboard with Prometheus to track resource usage or running complex queries on Loki or Elasticsearch, Grafana is one of the popular go-to tools. Grafana offers open-source an...
Dec 19, 20259 min read206
Securing Kafka: Demystifying SASL, SSL, and Authentication Essentials
The first time I had to secure a Kafka cluster, I felt like I was drowning in acronyms: SASL, SSL, SCRAM, Kerberos… The more I delved into the documentation, the more confused I became. If you’ve felt the same, don’t worry! You’re not alone. Kafka se...
Aug 31, 20258 min read337