New blog post alert! My colleague Alieh Saeedi digs into the guts of manual consumer offset commits, and the improvements of KIP-1094 (AK 4.0) about it. Outstanding work! Enjoy the read and change your code. You most likely do it wrong right now! www.confluent.io/blog/guide-t...

Kafka Consumer Offsets Guide—Basic Principles, Insights & Enhancements

Learn how to achieve data consistency and reliability with a complete Apache Kafka consumer offsets guide covering key principles, offset management, and KIP-1094 innovations.

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Proud to have contributed formal verification (TLA+) for three key improvements in Kafka 4.0: ✅ KIP-966: Strengthens the replication protocol. ✅ KIP-996: Introduces PreVote for more stable KRaft leadership. ✅ KIP-848: Delivers more efficient, predictable rebalancing.

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