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Hi - I’m the tech evangelist for a company that runs open source Apache Kafka (and other open source techs) at scale for many organisations and companies on major cloud platforms - I’m not on the operational side, but if you are looking at running mission-critical Kafka at scale then using a managed service producer is critical unless you have years of operational expertise, check out the options. Paul Brebner Technology Evangelist NetApp Instaclustr — my blogs are here: https://www.instaclustr.com/blog/author/paul-brebner/ From: Olivier Dexheimer via users <users@kafka.apache.org> Date: Thursday, 7 May 2026 at 5:29 pm To: users@kafka.apache.org <users@kafka.apache.org> Cc: Olivier Dexheimer <Olivier.Dexheimer@grandpalaisrmn.fr> Subject: Kafka feedback in small organizations EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION when clicking links or attachments Hi Kafka users, We are a 1000 people governemental french organization, willing to use Apache Kafka to ...

Hi Kafka users, We are a 1000 people governemental french organization, willing to use Apache Kafka to integrate our applications. We currently use Talend ETL for that purpose. We are developing a prototype on Apache Kafka 4.0, Kraft mode, which seems to fulfill our needs until now. Our request : we would like to have some feedbacks about using Apache Kafka in small organizations like ours - let's say, less than 5000 people : for what purpose it is used in your organization, what are the resources and tools needed for the run, main technical issues or tricky things to take care, etc. Best regards, Olivier Dexheimer Architecture & Devs Information Systems Management GrandPalaisRmn

Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, This is the 2nd candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.3.0. This release includes 25 KIPs bringing improvements to all components. Release notes for the 4.3.0 release: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.0-rc1/RELEASE_NOTES.html *** Please download, test and vote by May 11, 5pm CEST Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/KEYS * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.0-rc1/ * Docker release artifacts to be voted upon: apache/kafka:4.3.0-rc1 apache/kafka-native:4.3.0-rc1 * Maven artifacts to be voted upon: https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/kafka/ * Javadoc: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.0-rc1/javadoc/index.html * Tag to be voted upon (off 4.3 branch) is the 4.3.0 tag: https://github.com/apache/kafka/release...

I used the staged binaries and Maven artifacts ... and did some manual smoke testing and tested it with Strimzi tests as well. All seems to work fine, so +1 (non-binding). Thanks for running the release. Jakub On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 7:31 AM PoAn Yang <yangpoan@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the 1st candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.2.1. > > This is the first bug fix release for Apache Kafka 4.2 with fixes as > described in the release notes. > > Release notes for the 4.2.1 release: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.2.1-rc3/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > Please download, test and vote by Friday, May 1, 9pm PT. > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > https://kafka.apache.org/KEYS > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (source and binary): > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.2.1-rc3/ ...

I used the staged binaries and Maven artifacts, and did some manual smoke testing and tested it with Strimzi tests as well. All seems to work fine, so +1 (non-binding). Thanks for running the release, Mickael. Jakub On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM Mickael Maison <mickael.maison@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, > > This is the first candidate for release of Apache Kafka 4.3.0. > > This release includes 25 KIPs bringing improvements to all components. > > Note that we still have 1 blocker (KAFKA-20441) so there will be another > RC. > > Release notes for the 4.3.0 release: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/kafka/4.3.0-rc0/RELEASE_NOTES.html > > Please download, test and vote by May 4, 5pm CEST > > Kafka's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: > https://downloads.apache.org/kafka/KEYS > > * Release artifacts to be voted upon (so...

Congratulations Sean! -- Igor On Wed, Apr 29, 2026, at 19:48, Chia-Ping Tsai wrote: > The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Kafka is pleased to > announce Sean Quah as a new Kafka committer. > > Sean is a true Kafka expert who has made numerous significant contributions > to the project. If you are amazed by the new consumer protocol, we owe a > huge thanks to Sean for helping build this foundational feature. Honestly, > I am so proud to be the one sharing this exciting news with you all. > > Please join me in welcoming and congratulating Sean! > > Chia-Ping Tsai > On behalf of the Apache Kafka PMC >

Congratulations Sean! ________________________________ From: Matthias J. Sax <mjsax@apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 4:18 PM To: dev@kafka.apache.org <dev@kafka.apache.org> Cc: users@kafka.apache.org <users@kafka.apache.org> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Sean Quah Congrats! On 4/29/26 12:39 PM, Lianet Magrans wrote: > Congratulations Sean!!! > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 3:19 p.m. Mickael Maison <mickael.maison@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Congratulations Sean! >> >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 9:05 PM Dongnuo Lyu via dev >> <dev@kafka.apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Congrats Sean!! >> >