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Apache Kafka vs Apache Iggy: A Technical Comparison

Compare Kafka and Iggy architectures, durability guarantees, and benchmarks to understand which streaming engine fits your workload before you decide. At first glance, this looks like a fairly simple comparison. Both systems persist messages in partitioned, append-only logs. Both have offsets, retention policies, consumer groups, and replay. Apache Iggy is written in Rust with a thread-per-core architecture on top of io_uring, while Kafka runs on the JVM. So perhaps we should run a benchmark and pick the faster one.

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Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

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Energy Department Announces Initiative to Create and Deploy the World’s First Scientifically Relevant, Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

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Terraform MCP server: Four real-world AI infrastructure patterns

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80.1 million requests per second on DynamoDB

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Why Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy

Why Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy In this article I’m going to describe why Linkerd isn’t built on Envoy. This is a bit of a weird article to write.

China Has Launched the World’s First 6G Satellite. We Don’t Even Know What 6G Is Yet.

Apache Kafka: 8 things to check before going live

Apache Kafka is a beautiful system. It scales well, it is stable and it provides phenomenal system architecture flexibility. After 5 years of running production Kafka clusters, I have collected a list of tips and pitfalls.

Why we switched from Spacy to Flair to anonymize French legal cases