All posts for tag "kubernetes"

When you transition to a microservices architecture, you usually start with the best intentions: decoupling components to move faster. But reality quickly catches up in production. You often find yourself staring at a black box—a network “spaghetti bowl” where it’s incredibly hard to see who is actually communicating with whom, which service is calling which database, or why a specific request suddenly takes 3 seconds to respond.

Now that we are able to deploy a Kafka cluster using Strimzi (cf. Simplify Kafka Operational Tasks With Strimzi and Kubernetes), it will be interesting to see how we can retrieve configuration from the secure cluster to be able to produce and consume events.

More and more companies are integrating the Kafka distributed event streaming platform into their information system. The reasons can be multiple, it can range from setting up event-oriented architectures, doing change data capture ( CDC ), or setting up a data-centric strategy (Kafka as a message bus).