When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting Ruby’s Million-to-One Memory Bug
Every developer who maintains Ruby gems knows that sinking feeling when a user reports an…
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WaterDrop Meets Ruby’s Async Ecosystem: Lightweight Concurrency Done Right
Ruby developers have faced an uncomfortable truth for years: when you need to talk to…
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The 60-Second Wait: How I Spent Months Solving the Ruby’s Most Annoying Gem Installation Problem
Notice: While native extensions for rdkafka have been extensively tested and are no longer experimental,…
Karafka 2.5 and Web UI 0.11: Next-Gen Consumer Control and Operational Excellence
Introduction Imagine pausing a problematic partition, skipping a corrupted message, and resuming processing - all…
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Breaking the Rules: RPC Pattern with Apache Kafka and Karafka
Introduction Using Kafka for Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) might raise eyebrows among seasoned developers. At…
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Under the Hood: Enhancing Karafka’s CPU and Memory Efficiency
Introduction Now and then, I like to go on a performance improvement hunt because life…
The librdkafka Supply Chain Breakdown: rdkafka-ruby’s Darkest Hour
Opening Note We all make mistakes, and fundamentally, the havoc caused by this incident was…
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From Sleep to Speed: Making Rdkafka Sync Operations 16 Times Faster
As an open-source developer, I constantly seek performance gains in the code I maintain. Since…
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Karafka 2.4 Release Announcement: Advancing Kafka Processing for Ruby and Rails
Introduction I am thrilled to announce the release of Karafka 2.4, a significant milestone in…
From Oniguruma to POSIX: The Regex Rift Between Ruby and C
Introduction In the world of Kafka and its applications, utilizing regular expressions for topic subscriptions…