r/apachekafka is a subreddit with 21k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses kafka, apache kafka, streams, streaming, and performance.
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
Advice Requests
: "What is the biggest Kafka disaster you have faced in production?"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "PSA: Stop suffering with basic Kafka UIs - Lenses Community Edition is actually free"
4 posts
#3
News
: "PagerDuty - August 28 Kafka Outages – What Happened"
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "kafka security governance is a nightmare across multiple clusters"
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "yaks - yet another kafka on s3"
2 posts
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Jack Vanlightly - Introducing Dimster, a performance benchmarking tool for Apache Kafka"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/apachekafka
#1
Kafka
: "The Floor Price of Kafka (in the cloud)"
272 posts
#2
Apache Kafka
: "Interview: The State & Future Of Apache Kafka"
18 posts
#3
Streams
: "I’ve built an interactive simulation of Kafka Streams’ architecture!"
17 posts
#4
Streaming
: "Surviving the Streaming Dungeon with Kafka Queues"
11 posts
#5
Performance
: "Kafka Performance testing framework - automates the tedious matrix of acks/batch.size/linger.ms benchmarking"
9 posts
#6
Consumer
8 posts
#7
Migration
: "Kafka 3.9.0: ZooKeeper to KRaft Migration Lab"
8 posts
#8
Monitoring
: "Monitoring Kafka Cluster with Parseable"
7 posts
#9
Security
: "kafka Security governance is a nightmare across multiple clusters"
7 posts
#10
Connect
6 posts
Flair Used in r/apachekafka
#1
Blog
: "A 2 minute overview of Apache Kafka 4.0, the past and the future"
91 posts
#2
Question
: "The kafka book by Gwen Shapiro"
55 posts
#3
Tool
: "I’ve built an interactive simulation of Kafka Streams’ architecture!"
46 posts
#4
Video
: "Interview: The State & Future Of Apache Kafka"
2 posts
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Last updated: July 13, 2026