#kafka
5 articles tagged kafka.
I Rebuilt Our AI Agents on Kafka Instead of REST — Here's the Full Java Architecture
REST between AI agents works until agent #4 shows up. The full Java/Spring topic design, the ReAct loop as a state machine, the free audit trail we didn't expect — and every code sample here actually compiles against real Spring Kafka and Spring AI, with the build log to prove it.
System Design: Building a Notification Service for 50 Million Users
A complete system design walkthrough — from blank page to production architecture — covering fan-out, multi-channel delivery, rate limiting, retry logic, and the trade-offs engineers get wrong in interviews and production.
Event-Driven AI: How Kafka Streams Changed the Way We Run LLMs in Production
From blocking HTTP calls to async event streams — the architecture shift that halved user-visible latency, eliminated 3AM pages, and lets us process 2M AI requests a day without hitting rate limit walls.
Microservices Done Right: Patterns I've Learned from 12 Years of Enterprise Architecture
Real-world patterns, anti-patterns, and hard lessons from designing and delivering microservices for global enterprises — from service decomposition to event-driven architecture to the observability you'll wish you had from day one.
Kafka Scalability Patterns
Practical patterns for designing highly scalable Kafka-based enterprise systems — from partition strategy to consumer group tuning.