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PagerDuty's Kafka Outage Silences Alerts for Thousands of Companies
PagerDuty, the incident management platform used by thousands of organisations to alert them to problems on their systems, suffered a major outage itself on 28th August, 2025. In a comprehensive outage report, the company detailed the scope of the problem, the customer impact, and how it is working to prevent a recurrence.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, TornadoVM, Payara Platform, Apache Kafka, Grails, Micronaut
This week's Java roundup for September 1st, 2025, features news highlighting: JEP 517 proposed to target for JDK 26; TornadoVM releases GPULlama3.java 0.2.0; the September 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, Apache Kafka and Apache Tomcat; and second release candidates of Grails 7.0 and Gradle 9.1.
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Netflix Revamps Tudum’s CQRS Architecture with RAW Hollow In-Memory Object Store
Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an in-memory object store developed internally. Revamped architecture of Tudum offers much faster content preview during the editorial process and faster page rendering for visitors.
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Agoda Handles Kafka Consumer Failover across Data Centers with Custom Two-Way Sync
Agoda's engineering team recently shared their custom solution designed to maintain critical Kafka consumer operations across multiple on-premise data centers, ensuring business continuity even during outages.
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DoorDash Introduces Config-Driven Badge Framework to Decouple UI Logic
DoorDash has launched a badge serving framework (BSF), a configuration-based system that decouples UI badge logic from application code. BSF allows the company to manage badges through backend configuration instead of client-side updates, enabling faster rollouts and more consistent behavior across platforms.
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Inside Netflix’s Title Launch Observability System: Validating Title Availability at Global Scale
Netflix has developed a platform called Title Launch Observability, which shifts observability from system health to product intent. Instead of relying solely on logs and metrics, the system validates launches against what users should see, catching content quality issues early. The platform helps detect issues such as missing artwork, incorrect recommendations, or localization gaps.
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AWS Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration
Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.
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LinkedIn Announces Northguard and Xinfra: Scaling beyond Kafka for Log Storage and Pub/Sub
LinkedIn today announced Northguard, a scalable log storage system that replaces Kafka, and Xinfra, a virtualized Pub/Sub layer. Northguard delivers sharded data & metadata, log striping, strong consistency, and self-balancing clusters at a larger scale than Kafka, while Xinfra enables seamless migration and unified access across Kafka and Northguard.
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Spring News Roundup: Spring Vault Milestone, Point Releases and End of OSS Support
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 16th, 2025, highlighting: the first milestone release of Spring Vault 4.0; and point releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Kafka. Release trains for numerous Spring projects will also reach the end of OSS support on June 30, 2025.
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Kafka 4.0: KRaft Simplifies Architecture
Apache Kafka 4.0 ushers in a transformative era by adopting KRaft mode, eliminating the need for ZooKeeper, streamlining architecture, and enhancing scalability. With a next-gen consumer group protocol for improved performance and early access to point-to-point messaging, Kafka solidifies its role in modern data streaming. Elevate your data infrastructure with Kafka’s innovative advancements!
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Java News Roundup: JDK 24, GraalVM for JDK 24, Payara Platform, Kafka 4.0, Spring CVEs, JavaOne 2025
This week's Java roundup for March 17th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JDK 24 and Apache Kafka 4.0; the March 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; Spring Security CVEs; and JavaOne 2025.
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Inside Atlassian Lithium: How a Dynamic ETL Platform is Transforming Data Movement and Cutting Costs
Atlassian recently introduced Lithium, an in-house ETL platform designed to meet the requirements of dynamic data movement. Lithium streamlines tasks such as cloud migrations, scheduled backups, and in-flight data validations by supporting ephemeral pipelines and tenant-level isolation while ensuring efficiency and scalability, resulting in significant cost savings.
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Stream All the Things: Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing Explored by Adi Polak at QCon SF
Adi Polak, Director of Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering at Confluent, illuminated the complexities of data streaming in her QCon San Francisco presentation. She outlined key design patterns for robust pipelines, emphasizing reliability, scalability, and data integrity.
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Java News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Project Loom, Open Liberty, Groovy, Jakarta EE 11 Update
This week's Java roundup for November 4th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first candidate release of Spring Cloud 2024; an update on Project Loom; the release of Open Liberty 24.0.0.11; point and milestone releases for Apache Groovy; and an update on Jakarta EE 11.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 11, GlassFish 8.0-M8, JReleaser 1.15, JHipster 8.7.3, Quarkus 3.16
This week's Java roundup for October 28th, 2024 features news highlighting: an update to the upcoming release of Jakarta EE; the eighth milestone release of GlassFish 8.0; and point releases of JReleaser 1.15.0, JHipster 8.7.3 and Quarkus 3.16.0.