#kafka

Keeping garbage out of the fleet — validating IoT data at ingestion, three ways

“The error path is the part everyone skips. We wired a per-device reject topic and then nothing subscribed to it for six months. Garbage got dropped silently into a topic no one was watching — which is its own kind of garbage.”

What I stole from Netflix's Kafka data pipeline deck

“You don't need Netflix's scale to use Netflix's architecture. You just need to want the same things Netflix wanted: decoupling, replay, and one source of truth.”