r/apachekafka is a subreddit with 22k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and ideas, and the community frequently discusses kafka, apache kafka, visualization, looking for, and stream.
Talk and share advice about the most popular distributed log, Apache Kafka and its ecosystem. This includes Apache Kafka itself, and compatible implementations of the protocol.
Popular Themes in r/apachekafka
#1
Solution Requests
: "7 Managed Iceberg Lakehouse Solutions You Should Know"
6 posts
#2
Ideas
: "AI Generated Projects"
5 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "New to Data Engineering – Where should I start with Hadoop, Kafka, PySpark, YARN, and HBase?"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "What's the worst bug you've traced back to Kafka partitioning/key choice?"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "I built a self-hosted Kafka console where you can draw and deploy Kafka Streams topologies — 0.6.0 just shipped; feedback wanted"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/apachekafka
#1
Kafka
: "Diskless Kafka: Object Storage, KIP-1150, and Kafka’s Future"
48 posts
#2
Apache Kafka
: "Apache Kafka performance #1 - linger.ms — Jack Vanlightly"
3 posts
#3
Visualization
2 posts
#4
Looking For
2 posts
#5
Stream
: "Blazerules - A YAML based rule engine for Streaming JSON, Kafka, and Arrow events"
2 posts
#6
Consumers
: "Kafka Simulator v1.2 — Consumers and the rebalance"
2 posts
#7
Streams
: "Query your data Streams using SQL"
2 posts
#8
Diskless
: "Diskless Kafka: Object Storage, KIP-1150, and Kafka’s Future"
2 posts
#9
Clusters
: "Readpanda: TUI to manage kafka Clusters"
2 posts
#10
Remote Job
1 post
Flair Used in r/apachekafka
#1
Blog
: "AI Generated Projects"
37 posts
#2
Question
: "We used kafka as workflow execution engine planning to migrate later, but now the entire team is conflicted."
28 posts
#3
Tool
: "Open-source Salesforce connectors for Kafka Connect"
21 posts
#4
Blog (AI)
: "Using a compacted Kafka topic to keep a local cache in every pod"
4 posts
#5
Event
: "How Siemens maintains data quality at scale"
2 posts
#6
Tool (AI)
: "Built a read-only MCP server for Kafka observability — curious what else ops folks would want an agent to see"
1 post
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Last updated: September 16, 2026