3 posts tagged with "Kafka"

• Schema Registries and Event Schemas: Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema on the Way Into the Lakehouse

  September 02, 2026

  How Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema evolve through a registry, and how that maps to the schema evolution rules of Iceberg.

• Apache Fluss and Kafka Solve Different Problems in an Iceberg Pipeline

  July 28, 2026

  Fluss puts a columnar, indexed hot tier between Kafka and Iceberg. Here's what it changes structurally, what Kafka still does better, and how to benchmark the comparison yourself.

• The State of Streaming to Apache Iceberg in July 2026: Every Path, Its Latency, and What to Do When Seconds Are Not Fast Enough

  July 06, 2026

  Every path for streaming data into Iceberg in 2026 — Flink, Spark, Kafka Connect, broker-native, managed pipelines — with honest latency numbers and sub-second hybrid architectures.